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“The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer”
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“I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.”
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“Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.”
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“Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.”
Source : John Bingham, Jenny Hadfield (2003). “Marathoning for Mortals: A Regular Person's Guide to the Joy of Running or Walking a Half-Marathon or Marathon”, p.19, Rodale
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“I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.”
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“The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.”
Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.63, Penguin UK
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“I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.”
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“In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.”
