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Jesse Owens has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.
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One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can…
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We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as…
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When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I…
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close
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I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics,…
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Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.
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The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only…
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If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries…
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It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only…
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I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air…
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After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap…
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
— William Shenstone
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When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I…
— Jesse Owens
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I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes…
— Christopher Wren
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But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and…
— Georg Solti
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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What kind of love is more pure and more majestic, like the love for your native country. What kind of love? Theres…
— Sorin Cerin
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Italy is certainly the native country of this art: and yet, I do not find the people in general either more musically…
— Tobias Smollett
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Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers
— Unknown Author
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