#yea

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#big city #city #companionship #early #friendship

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation. ↗

— Willie Mays

#calling #had #important #into #jackie

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was. ↗

— Willie Mays

#depends #every #games #got #how

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#come #i #lie #long #long way

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#consequence #decade #during #firm #first

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years. ↗

— John McAfee

#day #declining #enjoy #fish #i

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#call #everything #few #frantic #get

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#i #look #maybe #papers #pile

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then. ↗

— Diana Ross

#get #i #instead #look #looking

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky. ↗

— Mike McCready

#bands #five #life #long #lucky