All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they ar... YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO The girls kept coming back. They were tougher than ever. I know that because they kept coming back a... JEFF RINEHIMER Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Before I went through that situation, and during the time I was in there, I know there were people w... GLORIA TREVI I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but
he is not a cookie
Casper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten Boo... CASPER TEN BOOM The girl clones at Singer Grove were just like the ones in Texas; they knocked themselves out to be ... E.L. KONIGSBURG The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want thei... RUSH LIMBAUGH Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commo... JOHN SELDEN When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber t... HENDRIK POINAR He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn wi... GROVER CLEVELAND The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER The pathetic thing in this case was that they were asked if they wanted to move them and they did no... CHARLES FOTI Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at th... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. The... RON CHERNOW In Aruba, I don't know what the situation is there, but it was interesting that these young men coul... FRANKIE BAILEY Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of... FULTON J. SHEEN One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a doub... CORRIE TEN BOOM Is it then that they do not ponder over what is said, or is it that there has come to them that whic... QURAN People overlooked him because he doesn't throw hard. They didn't know the kind of man that was insid... FELIPE ALOU The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they wer... HARRY G. JOHNSON I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors. DEYTH BANGER Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T... T. REAL They were not Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, they were stealing from chi... GARY GAMBARDELLA Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how
that al our fathers were under the ... BIBLE He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may ca... GROVER CLEVELAND And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; a... BIBLE I had assumed that all Tibetan lamas were just like the Dalai Lama, teaching that they were nonviole... ERIK CURREN And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they... MARK WAHLBERG He said they were very young. He said they were all freshmen, and I don't know if that is the case, ... BOB TOMLINSON Some were greatly offended, some were terribly amused, but mostly they were shocked that he did it k... RICHARD HAMILTON I despised how those pale-faced vegans held their little spoons, humbling themselves. Who do they th... RAWI HAGE I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... ... GARY REILLY He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not n... LOIS LOWRY It was all part of the Eastern system of control and appropriation, Frankie reflected philosophicall... ASHOK FERREY Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that... PHIL LESH They were retired people who worked all their lives. They were all very close friends some lifelong ... ELI PERLMAN Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the governme... JAMES WELCH People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex phy... MUHAMMAD YUNUS At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my fa... GEORGE PAPANDREOU I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only ... AHMED BEN BELLA He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it... CORMAC MCCARTHY Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize... MARK MAISH A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls wer... HEATHER BREWER All families were like that, with their private damage they kept among themselves, ghosts they lived... BOBBY UNDERWOOD The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and th... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and th... ERNEST HEMINGWAY He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was a... COREY SIMON He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was ... COREY SIMON There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT What were he and his friends doing, really, other than hanging from a branch, sticking their tongues... JEFFREY EUGENIDES It was Elvis, and they were going to have a party or something... So he came over to the house and..... CONNIE STEVENS I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether t... T. D. JAKES Not only did we not know there was so much poverty, but also that so many of these poor people were ... CECIL WILLIAMS Not only did we not know there was so much poverty, but also that so many of these poor people were ... CECIL WILLIAMS 'Not only did we not know there was so much poverty, but also that so many of these poor people were... CECIL WILLIAMS Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. The... LORRIE MOORE Ginger: You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never f... TERRY PRATCHETT All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered ... EDITH WHARTON A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. B... SARAH RUHL Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was asking all these questions, wanting to know what the deformity was. I asked him why he needed... SUE BAILEY He was set up. A number of young girls from the village where he lives were kidnapped and were detai... GREG KING Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they ... JAM MASTER JAY In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and ... THICH NHAT HANH Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the iss... SHANE CARRUTH The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; a... MOTHER THERESA I realized that I was asexual because when I was young, all of my friends started being attracted to... DAVID JAY At the time it was making all these crazy short bits of entertainment, the things that ran between v... CHRISTINA NORMAN Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Human and human-minded as men were, t... ST. ATHANASIUS You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but not one of... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Their faces said that they were affected by what they saw. They understood not only how only the bui... DAVE WISE Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end... C.S. LEWIS Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 The reason that the Ten Commandments... DAN BENNETT I think Shannon should look at my granny and tell her that he's sorry, because he kept calling and a... LISA PARKER It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to ... THORNTON WILDER He said it hit him travelling one time in the year or so before he met my mother. Whatever country o... MARCEL THEROUX All the people were nice. They all acted like family and friends. JAMES BUSH Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,
... JOHN MILTON People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls-poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls a... CARROLL O'CONNOR It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl... EUDORA WELTY His teammates did not rally around him. At all. They were frustrated, angry, and somewhat sympatheti... RON ROTHSTEIN There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then ther... VICTORIA SCHWAB There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. So... TERRY PRATCHETT I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because 'thank you' is not enough... . As far a... LYNN DOOLEY He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-endin... JESS C. SCOTT Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But... ALEKSANDER KAASNIEWSKI Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But... ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating ... MALCOLM BRADBURY These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful... JOHN CONNOLLY Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally ass... URSULA K. LE GUIN Over the years, there's been some cases where people did come up who said they were healed, but ... BENNY HINN And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not fo... BIBLE
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he is not a cookie
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