#large

I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet. ↗

— Pee Wee Reese

#dodgers #enough #five #foot #four

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa. ↗

— Susan Rice

#example #for example #foreign #increasingly #investor

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#almost #begun #cooled #disappear #eager

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#being #changed #could #due #everything

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map. ↗

— Edward Witten

#been #dimensions #explanation #large #map

As long as the constitution of my country is not amended to cut down the sizes of the dreams of its citizens, I have the freedom to dream extra largest dreams. I am even dreaming over-size dreams now. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#big-dreams #constitution #country #cut-down #dream

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers! ↗

— Pierre Laval

#france #freedom #germany #go #large

For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#atom #depths #efforts #exploration #farther

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon. ↗

— George MacDonald

#enough #hang #large #large enough #light

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#critical #even #happily #i #i am