Quotes About The Vancouver Olympics

#1. I always thought the Vancouver Olympics would be my last destination, but I'm extending it to Sochi ... I want to start anew, not as an Olympic medalist but just as yet another figure skater.

Kim Yuna

#2. I had trouble finding my next goal after winning a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, but the interest of the public and my fans in me got even bigger. I wanted to get away from the pressure, even for a single day.

Kim Yuna

#3. The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself was a huge achievement.

Kim Yuna

#4. Certainly on this planet it is not apparent that there are beings more intelligent than humans, although a case can be made for dolphins and whales, and in fact if humans succeed in destroying themselves with nuclear weapons, a case can be made that ALL other animals are smarter than humans.

Carl Sagan

#5. Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
The surest guard is innocence:
None knew, till guilt created fear,
What darts or poisoned arrows were

Horace

#6. The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.

Jeff Cooper

#7. May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into "permanent session" - what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!

Hilary Mantel

#8. When in doubt, always choose love & gratitude.

Hal Elrod

#9. I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).

Kelly Clark

#10. I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

Osric Chau

#11. Olympics are coming to Vancouver in 2010 and with it the likelihood of gentrification in this neighborhood. The process has already begun. There's a fear that the politicians, eager to impress the world, will try to displace the addict population.

Gabor Mate

#12. I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Hannah Kearney

#13. I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.

Marjane Satrapi

#14. I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Anne Campbell

#15. But, for myself, the Earth's records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.

Edgar Allan Poe

#16. Rich father, rich mother, rich husband. I'm sure her whole life she's never known what it's like to worry about money." Licking

Imbolo Mbue

#17. excelling at actions without being attached to them or to their results becomes the key to a balanced life.

Jayant Kalawar

#18. Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

Sean Bean

#19. The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

Cindy Klassen

#20. The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.

Adelina Sotnikova