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My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.


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BOB MARTINKO just isn't an option. He has nothing to go back to.
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GARY F EVANS... We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
BURT RUTAN This is my last year; I've got nothing to hold back. I'm ready to go; I'm pumped up.
JACOB HALL This is my story. These things are my past, and I will not allow them to be washed away. I will find...
LAUREN DESTEFANO He has got a heck of a punch on him and I wouldn't like his fist in the back of my head so I think i...
SAMI HYYPIA He was never happy away from home. As soon as he got away he wanted to come back.
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO [His wife shuddered thinking of the terrifying tide of corpses floating in the flood.] I couldn't go...
ANTHONY POWELL I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The puck got loose in the zone and I sent it down low to Derek Smith. He sent it back to Brandon, wh...
CHRIS MCCONNON It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of ...
STEVE VERNON The four-inch rain washed away everything we'd done this spring. It came down so fast that the washe...
RICK ANDERSON He has a strong leg. That's really what got my attention right away.
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GARY F EVANS... Why would he want to put himself back through Lance-mania? He has nothing left to prove. He has done...
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BALTASAR GRACIáN It was contaminated from the flood surge. It washed in raw sewage from a sewage plant and chemicals ...
BRIAN STECKLER It has literally turned your house into an A.T.M. in the last couple of years. That will virtually g...
CARL STEIDTMANN I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were.
CATHERINE LACEY If a hitter has been in a slump, he should not be trying to hit home runs. They should go for double...
HOWARD BRAGMAN I just got a check for my flood insurance. That's true with a lot of my neighbors. Now if we can fin...
DR. JEFFREY COCO Derek has done a lot of work in the summer and he has attended some camps. He'll be a strength for u...
BILL BAUER I have told Derek we will see him on Monday because I want him to make sure he gives it plenty of th...
TONY MOWBRAY Simon appeared at the doorway behind Tori and Derek. He waved to me and mouthed "run while you c...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG It was just something the dads liked to do. But, when we got old enough, we joined in.
BLAKE WILSON [When Chavis arrived at the house that night,] he told me to go out the back door. He said to get in...
DAVID RIMMER This has been on everybody's mind. From where did they leave their car parked because it's probably ...
JIMMY WILLIAMS Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He helped me get three children under the age of 5 out of the house. Then he went back in and got ou...
ELIZABETH ISRAEL Derek has really developed into a scorer. He could always catch and shoot, but now he has a mid-rang...
DAVID STANIGER I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
FIONA APPLE I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
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JEFF MEYERS Everything my family owned had been washed away before my eyes. I lost all hope of normalcy.
AJAY MANGAL I love the weather in L.A., and I can drive 20 minutes to the beach, hike minutes from my house or g...
JUD TYLOR All the furniture in the house has to go, all the computers.
KATIE CAMMISA I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothi...
CHARLES DICKENS They should be fighting the effects of flood waters at home - helping people in the communities they...
NORMAN SOLOMON And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the hou...
ANTHONY LICCIONE I got him in the office and got her on the speaker phone. I was at my wit's end with him. I was read...
DAVE MAGARITY He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne...
ALAN CURBISHLEY When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of th...
ORIGEN My first full year in Indiana, we were (ranked) one and two (in flagrant fouls), so we've definitely...
BRAD MILLER Those who are attached to the True One have their filth washed away.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL My dream was to be there five, six, seven years and come back. I got married, I bought my house and ...
JOSE BERMUDEZ If only we could go back to Moscow! Sell the house, finish with our life here, and go back to Moscow...
ANTON CHEKHOV Once they got to her house, he asked to come in and use the bathroom. She allowed him to come in the...
JENELL ATLAS My brother let me stay here, but this house has been sold, and I got like, I think 'til the 12th, an...
WADE BRENCKLE I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
LILLIE LANGTRY I think Derek knows he has a lot to live up to with Curtis. I don't think he has to prove anything. ...
ANDRE JACOBS He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
JOHN LYLY there's nothing to go back to.
KIM ADAMS But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too.
ANNA AYALA The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. When...
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BOB DOLE A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
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JANE AUSTEN Like diamonds in the sky, you're beautiful to the eye. Beaches and sands washed away, say bye. Forev...
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is not...
LEONARDO DA VINCI One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.
JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school...
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS Even though everything my family owned had been washed away before my eyes, I couldn't just sit back...
AJAY MANGAL I wanted to go back to the beginning and to the codes of the house.
CHRISTIAN LACROIX He has basically got to freeze the peace process to woo back alienated right-wing voters.
DAVID MAKOVSKY My brother still lives in the house my parents owned in Fairborn. I go back there a lot to visit fri...
GREGORY H. JOHNSON I don't know how he did it, but he got the money for me to go back to school. He was very, very supp...
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NICK DELGUIDICE I'm going to keep praying, ... My house is in St. Charles Parish, and my house had some leakage and ...
AARON STECKER I'm going to keep praying, ... My house is in St. Charles Parish, and my house had some leakage and ...
AARON STECKER I'm going to keep praying, ... My house is in St. Charles Parish, and my house had some leakage and ...
AARON STECKER I'm going to keep praying. My house is in St. Charles Parish, and my house had some leakage and sidi...
AARON STECKER My house was built in 1986 and it is flat with the street. When we moved in there were no houses nex...
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ADAM ANT I think these options are awful. I think they've got to throw this away and go back and look at it a...
DAVID SHORE You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory ...
ERIC BURDON You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo
AMBROSE BIERCE Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscie...
AMBROSE BIERCE One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCE OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was onc...
AMBROSE BIERCE Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
AMBROSE BIERCE Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled wh...
AMBROSE BIERCE When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
AMBROSE BIERCE Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of...
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