#gr

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#first #great #great thing #hard #hard thing

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#anybody #because #big #could #fantasy

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#backwards #direction #going #group #guess

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#every #existence #found #least #nation

A great American city is fighting for its life. ↗

— Marc Morial

#city #fighting #great #great american #life

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#basin #before #contains #fashion #glacier

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#any #anyone #beautiful #beautiful music #being

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#going #growing #growing up #had #i

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#because #college #corrupting #i #kicked