#worked

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#boy #child #cows #day #every

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#camp #could #counsellor #eight #far

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#gymnastics #hard #i #old #retired

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#become #effective #emissions #epa #introduced

That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#character #i #i think #like #people

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#far #got #hard #like #music

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#bad #bad time #crawling #dwell #gone

I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#got #hard #how #i #in fact

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. ↗

— Anita Diament

#close #compare #english #favorite #how

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#carried #facts #figures #hard #i