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... daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys.


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EDWARD FAHEY The army teaches boys to think like men.
ELVIS PRESLEY Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
GEORGE HERBERT We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
ITALO CALVINO The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan , D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Army recruiting is in a death spiral, through no fault of the Army,
CHARLES KROHN The noontide light passing through the rib cage of Joshua trees, like morning for Matisse.
MICHAEL EASTON I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules...
JOSH TURNER I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Trees went through every one of our lines - including numerous trees through distribution lines in t...
FAYE ANDERSEN A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an ...
GERMAN PROVERB Bring the army of the faithful through.
GEORGE MEREDITH Like an army defeated/ The snow hath retreated.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH “Plant trees for others, whose shade you will never sit under.” ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
CHARLES CHURCHILL She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap...
NEIL GAIMAN The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.
GRAHAM GREENE We're an army, ladies and gentlemen. We're an army of friends.
KEVIN DREW You have wonderful artists like Patty Labelle and Aretha Franklin that have opened up the door and b...
KELLY ROWLAND You have wonderful artists like Patty Labelle and Aretha Franklin that have opened up the door and b...
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JOHN GREGORY DUNNE whose army is not an army of conquest.
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BILL PAXON An Army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE "Wandering aimlessly through life, in sort of a bliss is like using a compass without a directional ...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN For an old Army officer, it's like one last assignment.
DAVE REED He does a good job drawing fouls. He's crafty like that.
MIKE BREY So now the public can enjoy works in daylight that were painted in daylight. It is like a freshly re...
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DAVID KAUFMAN An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass
GEORGE WASHINGTON How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where...
BURL IVES Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
HELEN KELLER For some, life is a trip in the daylight; for others, it's a journey through night.
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JIMMY PAGE My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the gui...
JIMMY PAGE My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guita...
JIMMY PAGE Ethan got some books out of an old trunk. They were history books, some passed down from his great-g...
C.G. FAULKNER Some of the trees that made it through Katrina might not make it through this.
CEROY JEFFERSON Silently we went round and round,
And through each hollow mind
The memory of dreadful thin...
OSCAR WILDE Money is an army. The green army, is the strongest.
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PATRICK QUILLIN I run to daylight when I see an opening,
ADRIAN PETERSON We tell them to go through the normal routes, the newspaper, word-of-mouth, the Salvation Army. We t...
BEVERLY MILLER An army of the people is invincible!
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DANIEL DEFOE The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being...
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NICK HORNBY I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.
CHAZ BONO True Friends become Lighthouse Beacons, Helping us through the Storms of Life. ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of ...
DANIEL DEFOE If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that ...
MARTINA BOONE I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern y...
GEORGETTE HEYER Then she sighed. Just the faintest, softest release of breath. The sound swept through his chest lik...
TESSA DARE Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
MAO ZEDONG Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
ROBERTO BOLAñO Daylight won’t protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don’t wait until ...
KATJA MILLAY Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
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PROVERB An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer.
UNKNOWN There'll be an army, of course,
GILLES DUCEPPE Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment...
JOSEPH ADDISON He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there,...
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WINSTON CHURCHILL Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL “The beauty of the inner soul can permeate through one’s outward gestures and expressions.” ~T...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
CHARLES-MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND What happens when you match an inept registry with crafty businessmen? The answer is a really large ...
BOB PARSONS I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again...
JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN It is a proud tradition and fighting trait of our army and people to rise up like mountains and go t...
KIM JONG-UN All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in m...
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS When I got to New York, I immediately ran like a wild child to Central Park to touch the trees. I am...
DANIELLE DARRIEUX I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
LENA HORNE Despite coming up short today, it sounds like the boys have had an amazing week.
ANDREW FLINTOFF Sure, of course. My boys know I'm famous. They see me on the TV but they'd rather watch 'The Simpson...
IAN BROWN I handled all the program activities and he (Butterfield) did the overall operation of the ranch. Du...
LARRY ARROWOOD I handled all the program activities and he (Butterfield) did the overall operation of the ranch. Du...
LARRY W. ARROWOOD Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
DAVID TUVILL I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees.
IRISH MCCALLA Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
JIM LOVELL You know what it is? Alot of these people are just now jumping on the 'we hate Tom' band waggon. I'v...
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ANDREW BACEVICH I don't like Tom.
LARRY ELLISON It's not just an issue of the trees. The removal of the trees is part of the overall plan to reinvig...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Most fools think they are only ignorant.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN