Gelindo Bordin quotes

Gelindo Bordin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'”
-- Gelindo Bordin

#Running Quotes #Pain Quotes #Race Quotes
“I am too tired, even to be happy.”
-- Gelindo Bordin

#Running Quotes #Tired Quotes #Inspirational Running Quotes

“The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.”

Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.
“Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.”
“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”
“When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”
“Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.”
“Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.”

Source : Ada Cambridge, “Honour”
“All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.”
“If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.30, Courier Corporation
“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”
“...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.”

You may also like:

Amby Burfoot
Journalist
Bill Rodgers
Athlete
Douglas Wakiihuri
Olympic athlete
Filbert Bayi
Frank Shorter
Olympic athlete
Greg Meyer
Grete Waitz
Olympic athlete
Joan Benoit
Olympic athlete
John Bingham
Author
John Treacy
Olympic athlete
Juma Ikangaa
Priscilla Welch
Olympic athlete
Robert de Castella