Quotes about leaped (15 Quotes)




    Robert Richardson (Carson, Calif.) leaped 11.46m37-7.25 to win the triple jump M50 age group title. This is a great competition, ... I visualize each phase, and try to hit the board at the right angle without scratching.

    I knew that they would probably go to him (Walker) because he is their best shooter. I leaped as high as I could and I tipped the ball, but I guess you got to give Nicholson credit for what he did.

    . . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.


    The little boy-that-used-to-be On Christmas morning watched the tree. He hid beneath a man's disguise, But oh the sparkle in his eyes He watched his son with great delight And how his heart leaped at the sight Of Junior opening up his toys, And then ... there were two little boys. One half past three, and one ... oh well, His age in years why need we tell It did not matter as they played With auto, train and gay parade. Circus and games and toy pop-gun I'm sure I do not know which one Was happier ... the half past three Or grown-up lad-that-used-to-be.

    He was polite to his elders, who disliked him. Whatever his elders told him to do, he did. They told him to look before he leaped, and he always looked before he leaped. They told him never to put off until the next day what he could do the day before, an.


    Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

    From you have I been absent in the spring,
    When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
    Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,
    That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him,
    Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
    Of different flowers in odor and in hue,
    Could make me any summer's story tell,
    Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew.

    I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

    I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

    Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he could gain power, until he finally came up with the great solution of constant fear and guilt, then he leaped up and started planning a n

    Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

    No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!



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