#gr

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real. ↗

— Robbie Keane

#cup #doing #dublin #growing #growing up

Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Robbie Keane

#arabia #cameroon #cup #easiest #germany

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#basketball #developed #early #great #great love

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#aristocracy #bloated #cheap #china #despair

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#crisis #distress #feed #forty #grasped

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12. ↗

— Shaun White

#average #i #japan #kid #signing

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. ↗

— Charles Keating

#being #ever #grand #here #i

He found himself grinning at her. His nervousness had disappeared, and suddenly he had a sense of his own size, his physical strength, his own brains and being. Four years, he had earned his own bread and keep, fended for himself, had not only remained alive and well but had put together a small fishing fleet of his own, and kept it alive and functioning and fought the wind and the weather and met a payroll of eleven men in his crews-and be damned with the lot of them if he'd go into a funk over which spoon or knife to use. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #family

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#autobiography #everyone #lives #mother #required

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. ↗

— John Keats

#fail #greatest #i #sooner #than