Famous quotes containing the words flying, training and/or group:
“Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said On the line! The Reconstruction said Go! I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, its the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.”
—Christopher Morley (18901957)
“Remember that the peer group is important to young adolescents, and theres nothing wrong with that. Parents are often just as important, however. Dont give up on the idea that you can make a difference.”
—The Lions Clubs International and the Quest Nation. The Surprising Years, I, ch.5 (1985)