Zola Budd Quotes

#1. Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is

Alan Parry

#2. I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

Zola Budd

#3. Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is what man has been; of law, what he does; of physiology, what he is; of ethics, what he ought to be; of revelation, what he shall be.

George Finlayson

#4. I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

Zola Budd

#5. Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.

Ishmael Reed

#6. I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

Christopher Buckley

#7. The idea that you have to avoid teaching evolution or pretend you're not teaching it is unique in the industrial world. And the statistics are mind-boggling. Roughly half the population think the world was created a couple thousand years ago.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Looking back ... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

Zola Budd

#9. The false starts and futilities of the past years proved themselves to be groundwork, foundations, laid in the dark but well laid.

Ursuala K. Le Guin

#10. Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

Zola Budd

#11. It's a tiny house. It's still there. In my memory, it is larger than life. It has to be, to hold all the memories.

Angela N. Hunt

#12. Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

Candace Bushnell

#13. She hasn't run faster than herself before

Zola Budd

#14. INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

Zola Budd

#16. There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.

Zola Budd

#17. And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#18. I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move,

Zola Budd

#19. I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

Zola Budd

#20. I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

Zola Budd

#21. When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you're African it's different and I don't think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn't matter where you move, you will always be a South African,

Zola Budd

#22. Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones.

Jay Woodman