Nadia Comaneci Quotes
It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
-
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
-
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
-
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
-
I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
-
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
-
We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
-
You either make dust or eat dust.
-
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
-
If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.
-
I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
-
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
-
My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
-
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
-
I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
-
Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
-
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
-
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
-
Our problem at the moment is a problem of success.
-
The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.
-
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
-
This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.
-
It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
