South African Olympic

Famous quotes containing the words south, african and/or olympic:

“Returned this day, the south wind searches,
And finds young pines and budding birches;
But finds not the budding man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”
—White South African proverb.

“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)