Meadowlark Quotes

#1. Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.

Wilt Chamberlain

#2. Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others.

Bill Cosby

#3. Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy that Meadowlark leaves is something that every child and adult can benefit from.

Robert Parish

#4. My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world.

Michael Jordan

#5. Meadowlark, you are the best!

Jerry Colangelo

#6. Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving
ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing
each other out. We set this house
on fire, forgetting that we live within.
(from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Jim Harrison

#7. Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

Mickey Rooney

#8. Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Robinson Jeffers

#9. At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

Albert Einstein

#10. I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#11. Let's just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'

Conan O'Brien

#12. They were both in the prime of youth, or even in that season which precedes the prime of youth, the season before the smooth pink folds of the flower have burst their gummy case, when the wings of the butterfly, though fully grown, are motionless in the sun.

Virginia Woolf

#13. To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.

Raif Badawi

#14. I do think the moral line you walk all the time about putting something in for the sake of the film and not being affected by people's lives is a very tough one.

Gillian Armstrong

#15. The focus is faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Why do you guys want to take all the mystery away? Isn't the mystery an exciting part of sex?

John Irving

#17. I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

Christopher Walken

#18. Rutherford showed how radio waves could travel long distances, penetrate walls, and magnetize iron.

Paul Halpern

#19. I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.

Mitch Kapor

#20. Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi