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We've found 32 quotes for 'broad jump' (0.147 seconds):



"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them." »Unknown 
"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way." »John Viscount Morley 
"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody." »Stanislaw Lec 
"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places." »E. Joseph Crossman 
"I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad.N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end." »Psalms 11996 
"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps." »Benjamin Disraeli 
"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." »Stanislaw Lec 
"Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught." »
William Shakespeare 
"Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught." »William Shakespeare 
"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." »Thucydides 
"Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it." »Kitty Kelley 
"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." »Zora Neale Hurston 
"We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it." »Larry Hawkins 
"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train." »Amos Bronson Alcott 
"When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!" »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." »Fran Lebowitz 
"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs." »Tori Amos 
"The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us, at noon we trample them under foot, and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us." »Longfellow 
"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can." »Sydney Smith 
"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it." »Vaclav Havel 
"When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises." »Franklin P. Adams 
"Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future." »Ronald Reagan 
"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground." »Noah Webster 
"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods." »Ralph Waldo Emerson 
"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." »Abraham Lincoln 
"One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider." »Damon Runyon 
"Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about ?the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.? The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason." »Egerton Smith 
"Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend..." »Old School 
"Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free" »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad 
"The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality." »Sir Eric Ashby 
   BTW, Why won't you become an editor?

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