#petitions

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#cited #house #matter #petitions #proceedings

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#being #competitions #creative #creative writing #enter

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#competitions #did #i #la #moved

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#competition #competitions #forget #go #i

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#belongs #competitions #everybody #games #individual

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#doing #i #lot #most #never

I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#course #i #lived #more #nearby

Professional competitions are overrated. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#overrated #professional

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#christmas time #dime #how #nickel #petitions

At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#competitions #could #credit #discover #english