Famous quotes containing the words independent, spirit and/or award:
“In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.”
—Los Angeles Sportscaster. quoted in Independent Magazine (London, Sept. 28, 1991)
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 16:18.
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)