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  • The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

  • I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.

    Teacher   Art   Children  
  • Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

    Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011
  • We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.

  • Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

    Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.770
  • It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

  • I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • Do I think there is a heaven? Uh, yeah I do. Like a really big gymnasium. How do I see myself there? With really bad seats.

    Thinking   Heaven   Yeah  
  • I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

    Brother   Father   Real  
  • Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.

    Mother   School   Fate  
  • When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  • I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

  • Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport. Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey.

  • Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

    Mind   Chess   Gymnasiums  
  • I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

    Fitness   Yoga   Training  
  • A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

    Mother   Children   Cocky  
  • Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.

    "Poetry Man". Interview with Joan Smith, www.sfgate.com. March 31, 1996.
  • On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.

    Fighting   Boxing   Mad  
    Source: www.alex-haley.com
  • Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.

    Home   Exercise   Doe  
  • The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

  • Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3177, Manonmani Publishers
  • Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.

    Mean   Self   Games  
  • It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

    Car   Flying   Fighter  
  • I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.

    Girl   Running   Silly  
  • The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers
  • Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

  • I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

  • Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel can speak of mountains, trees, sun, and moon praising God. Unlike an office complex or gymnasium, which have no value if people do not inhabit them, creation can glorify and bring God delight apart from human presence.

    Moon   Ezekiel   Office  
  • I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

    Mind   Bows   Gymnasiums  
    George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.30, 谷月社
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