Quotes About Steeplechase

#1. Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

Pico Iyer

#2. Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

Grace Kelly

#3. Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

Christina Stead

#4. We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

Bartlett Sher

#5. Do any of us know how we're actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

Cheryl Heller

#6. Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.

Evan Peters

#7. Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

Billy Gardell

#8. The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. Dream It, Believe In It, And Achieve It.

Black Barbie

#10. Why be happy when you could be normal ?

Jeanette Winterson

#11. In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living.

Tess Gerritsen

#12. She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.

Henry James

#13. Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Words can have all the power in the world or - none at all. That's up to you.

Adam Makos

#15. What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.

Joseph M. Scriven

#16. I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.

Elizabeth Warren

#17. George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.

Marjane Satrapi

#18. It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

James E. Faust