#heir

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete. ↗

— Linford Christie

#athletes #earning #funding #getting #had

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States. ↗

— Steven Chu

#china #decided #family #grew #however

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. ↗

— John Ciardi

#convictions #could #courage #easy #enough

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#civilizations #early #early stages #great #stages

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#before #better #did #done #former

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery. ↗

— John Cleveland

#channel #description #disturbance #guide #his

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning. ↗

— Jimmy Cliff

#clap #done #fame #hall #hands

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#been #certainly #consistent #decision #diet

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#coin #fashioned #governments #may #nations

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#differently #draw #handwriting #poets #their