Kathrine Switzer Quotes

#1. The rising strong reckoning has two deceptively simple parts: (1) engaging with our feelings, and (2) getting curious about the story behind the feelings--what emotions we're experiencing and how they are connected to our thoughts and behaviors.

Brene Brown

#2. She's a real adventurer, my mother.

Daphne Zuniga

#3. There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

Kathrine Switzer

#4. Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

Eugene Rivers

#5. If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

Kathrine Switzer

#6. The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

Frances Osborne

#7. I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by
you can't run and stay mad!

Kathrine Switzer

#8. If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

Kathrine Switzer

#9. Life is for participating, not for spectating.

Kathrine Switzer

#10. Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

Margaret Cho

#11. Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

Kathrine Switzer

#12. First, I started taking dance classes, and then I started taking singing lessons. Then my mom put me into a year-round theatre program where I did seven shows.

Lilla Crawford

#13. Predicting the market is always tough.

Alex Berenson

#14. Remember ... that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted,or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.

Stella Chess

#15. I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

Aleksandar Hemon

#16. When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders - women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

Kathrine Switzer

#17. Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

Kathrine Switzer

#18. Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.

John Lyly

#19. Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.

William Gaddis