Jackie Robinson Quotes

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Society
  • Water

• Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Father
  • India

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Past
  • Like
  • Sea

• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Good
  • Food
  • Know

• I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Time
  • Things
  • Collector

• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Today
  • Man

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Moon
  • Tomorrow

• In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Winning
  • Years
  • Independence

• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Love
  • Weird

• Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Christmas

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

  

  Placido Domingo
  • Career

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Soul

• Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Sad
  • Now
  • Divorce

• As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

  

  Joan Chen

• A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Impact