Quotes About 1968 Olympics

#1. There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

Dorothy Hamill

#2. I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

Clive Palmer

#3. It was like a date - a weird, twisted date that would probably end with them killing something

J. Lynn

#4. I actually think it's easier to be positive than negative, to be honest - it takes way more energy to stay mad at someone, for instance, than it does to say "i forgive you" and move on.

Dave Smalley

#5. We have lost a true public servant with the passing of Alan Nunnelee, who dedicated so much of his life to improving Mississippi, my thoughts and prayers are with Tori and the entire Nunnelee family at this sad time.

Thad Cochran

#6. This shouldn't be possible," he whispered, "but somehow, it's happening. You're something special to me, and I can only hope that I'm something special to you.

Samantha Young

#7. I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Quincy Jones

#8. There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.

Rajneesh

#10. The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.

Michael Tellinger

#11. Married men make the best husbands.

James Huneker

#12. I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.

Dorothy Hamill

#13. He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

Michael Ondaatje

#14. Forgiveness is a tough thing. Both in the offering ... and the accepting.

Charles Martin

#15. I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums. I'd like to sit and work a whole record with a certain person, to come up with a concept and see it through that way.

Flying Lotus

#16. Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

Dick Cavett

#17. You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

Bill Watterson

#18. In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.

Peggy Fleming