Walter Inglis Anderson Quotes

United States, Painter
September 29, 1903 – November, 30, 1965.

Walter Inglis Anderson was an American painter and writer. Known to his family as Bob, he was born in New Orleans to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell Anderson, member of a prominent New Orleans family, who had studied art at Newcomb College. She absorbed the ideals of the American Arts and Crafts movement and encouraged her children work in the arts.

Also known as Writer

At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

Walter Inglis Anderson
- Country
- Struggle
- Finish
I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

Walter Inglis Anderson
- Character
- Being
- Thankful

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

Walter Inglis Anderson
- Fear
- Acting
- Thing