#dre

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it. ↗

— Tom Petty

#actually #adrenaline #biggest #car #crowd

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#committed #crimes #free #horrific #miles

Christianity is a battle not a dream. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#christianity #dream

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#children #could #environment #fact #genes

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#calm #children #hear #important #keep

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#decent #dreams #finals #goal #goals

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. ↗

— Robert Plant

#die #equal #financial #give #hundred

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ↗

— Plato

#among #born #even #found #hero

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#began #children #found #i #influenced

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#existence #fancy #future #irrational #look