Gymnasiums Quotes - Page 2

• Do I think there is a heaven? Uh, yeah I do. Like a really big gymnasium. How do I see myself there? With really bad seats.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Heaven, Yeah

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• Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Thank God, Development

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3177, Manonmani Publishers

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• Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.

  Robert Hass

  Teacher, Reading, People

  "Poetry Man". Interview with Joan Smith, www.sfgate.com. March 31, 1996.

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• On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Boxing, Mad

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

  Muhammad Ali

  Morning, Hard Work, Patterns

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• The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

  Jean Paul

  Dance, Running, Exercise

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• I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.

  Leroy van Dyke

  People, Singing, One Day

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