Ledecky Quotes

#1. I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States.

Sebastian Faulks

#2. A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

Robert Breault

#3. A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

Poul Anderson

#4. I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Katie Ledecky

#5. When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

Katie Ledecky

#6. There is no law that requires the universe to fill itself with small particles of matter or to produce light and gravity and the other properties on which our existence hinges.

Bill Bryson

#7. My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

Katie Ledecky

#8. I'm a bashful individual, though I can't get anyone to believe it ...

Louisa May Alcott

#9. Power is neither good or evil, it just depends on how you choose to use it.-Rock, cats of the clans

Erin Hunter

#10. The harmonious man, it needs to be said, hardly exists at all; out of many tens, even hundreds of thousands perhaps one or two at most are encountered, and even then in rather feeble versions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

Malcolm Muggeridge