Quotes of: Jackie-robinson Keyword

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Heather Brooke

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

Jill Abramson

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

Jill Abramson

I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

Nancy Jo Sales

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Tina Brown

Sir Ken Robinson’s 2008 talk on educational reform—entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”—has now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children’s scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they ...

Ian Leslie

I was not a doper, I told myself - I just injected myself to recover and needed pills to sleep.

Racing Through the Dark

As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.

Kristin Armstrong

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

Kristin Armstrong

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Greg LeMond

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

Kristin Armstrong

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

Kristin Armstrong

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

Della Reese

I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.

Greg LeMond

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.

Greg LeMond

Dwayne T. Robinson: We're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess.

Die Hard

I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.

William Sanderson

You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

Mario Andretti

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.

Ron Santo