#fall

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.' ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#brother #climb #come #crying #fall

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#because #emotion #emotionally #every #fall

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do. ↗

— Robert Plant

#fall #good #i #i do #just

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? ↗

— Henri Poincare

#infallible #mathematicians #need #themselves

AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#because #civilizations #common #community #entire

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#character #difficulty #fall #live #love

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest. ↗

— Jon Porter

#being #continue #ensuring #fallen #fight

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#close #ego #falls #goes #having

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. ↗

— Colin Powell

#baghdad #fall #handled #history #i

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#beset #channel #conjecture #distance #explore