All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling
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All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is...
RUDYARD KIPLING All year long, our kids have totally bought into what we wanted them to do.
DAVID PYPER Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN A lot of us have been playing together for a long time and we all know how we play.
ERICA SWANGER In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were on...
NEIL GAIMAN I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a...
NAJWA ZEBIAN An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI All parties agreed they talked about this a long time ago. I can assure you that all of us have lear...
TODD TURNER Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY We were forced into this situation. Unfortunately our friends did not stand by us, ... The action th...
AYUB KHAN Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one strikin...
HALFORD E. LUCCOCK For the sake of our offsprings, we will keep fighting for the Democracy, Freedom and Justice, as lon...
KAZERONNIE MAK If you can try to nap where someone's sitting,
Although there is another empty chair,
Then...
HENRY N. BEARD I should have bought one a long time ago, ... It's great.
BOB STONE We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
GEORGE SANTAYANA It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. ...
RONALD REAGAN This has been a long time coming for us. We first conceived of the project about 10 years ago, and t...
CRAIG BRYSON Tonight they forced us to play a perimeter game all night long and we had some spurts where we misse...
RICK CORMANY The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago /...
W. H. AUDEN I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..."
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me a...
RUDYARD KIPLING One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll!
MARCUS MAYO We were really inspired by the Lord to open this place. We originally bought it in 2003. We had it f...
JEANNIE OCHOA He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss...
PATRICK NESS We have virtually no records, ... Everyone who we know had an interest in the mausoleum was contacte...
DAVID BONE Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Ly...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Our kids have believed all year long we can compete with Wheeler. So, we won't be intimidated. We ha...
PAT ABNEY I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends towar...
AL JARREAU This day marks once and for all times the end of our long suffering and today, too, we affirm our so...
XANANA GUSMAO Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We long ago took full responsibility for the shortcomings in our Philadelphia operations.
BILL BARBOUR Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
RAND PAUL I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO 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 We struggled at free throws all year long. In the end, our kids stepped up and got some huge rebound...
DON SHOWALTER We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected ...
ELLEN GOODMAN So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted...
JULIAN THE APOSTATE So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted...
JULIAN THE APOSTATE Errors have hurt us all year long. We've lost several games because of errors this season and, who k...
HEIDI MARTIN Our pitching has set the tone for us all season long.
PAUL KONERKO Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l...
DEYTH BANGER It’s this or nothing at all.
R.J. GROVES It's been a rough road for us. And ceremonies like this, remembrances, you know, and our memories, t...
BRANDY WILLIAMS Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd;
How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,...
ROBERT BLAIR We have to plead our own cause. Too long others have spoken for us.
GEORGE CURRY We have all played together for so long. We have a lot of chemistry. We know how each other plays an...
JANIS PARDY We've been too silent for too long. This should have been taken care of a long time ago.
LAKEISHA BRYANT It's been a long time since we won. We won in Sacramento about a year and a half ago, so it's been a...
DOUG GORDON Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all da...
JAMES COMEY We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS When we cut down an destroy rain forests we are not only killing living things that have been on thi...
GARY F EVANS... Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it
JAMES BALDWIN We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
BOB L. We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT We all have our own life to pursue, Our own kind of dream to be weaving... And we all have the power...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T...
T. REAL But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I think we're all kind of hoping for it. But we all kind of had it in our head this is going to be a...
STEVE HUTCHINSON I really do appreciate the efforts of all the committee members. It's the kind of thing where if the...
PAUL ALDERETE I really do appreciate the efforts of all the committee members. It's the kind of thing where if the...
SUPERINTENDENT PAUL ALDERETE The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want thei...
RUSH LIMBAUGH Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a lon...
HARUKI MURAKAMI What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our ...
SHARON SALZBERG It felt like yesterday we were playing in the Finals, ... I didn't think it was so long ago. We had ...
MANU GINOBILI This is a scare tactic. We haven't had raids for a very long, long time. It's a sad thing if we have...
ANGELA MEJIA All year long, we have relied on our defense and we are going to have to do that at state.
AL SNYDER Our tile ran all winter. We haven't seen that for a long time.
BOB WORTH Penalties have been a problem for us all season long.
JAY PELKEY Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the wall...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I'm a visionary. And I envisioned all of this. The kids laugh, but I envisioned this a long time ago...
DAVE VANDIVER For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Our post guys have been our bread and butter all year long. When they get going for us, it opens thi...
CHUCK ROACH I know the players wanted him (Joseph) to get this at home. He's been tremendous for us all year lon...
WAYNE GRETZKY I just have to look at the long run. In the long run, we've done some really nice things. Overall ou...
GLEN TAYLOR Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them....
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES We haven't been in this position in long time. Our pitching staff is all new.
JAMES APICELLI Long ago a man said that the earth is round but people laughed at him and declared him mental patien...
LALIT BHOJWANI We can use this Power long before we understand it.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS We beat them two years ago. We know we can play with Kentucky or any other high-powered team as long...
BRANDON TOBIAS We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its d...
HENRY L. STIMSON Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC What excites me about this is that we're talking. We should have done this a long time ago. This giv...
DONALD BRIGGS In closing, we are extremely enthusiastic about all of our strategic plans. We remain committed to o...
TOM KILIAN At that time, when we bought 10 years ago, we thought it gave us more bang for our buck on the East ...
KATHY ASMAN The theater will definitely get its use. It's going to be there forever, or at least as long as all ...
KAREN JOBE We looked at the weather and it didn't look good for Saturday. So we just did the whole thing Friday...
DAVE LIPE We played hard all night long. Yeah, we got tired, but we competed all night long.
ERNIE RODRIGUEZ We work together as a team all the time. If something happens in one of our jurisdictions, we know w...
MERNI FITZGERALD We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all ...
JAKE HALPERN I think we all long for glamour.
LINDA LEE If we have freedom, we have life. Therefore to live, we must love our fellow man, or all will live w...
DONALD D. CAMPBELL
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[Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]
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RUDYARD KIPLING Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ...
RUDYARD KIPLING I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
RUDYARD KIPLING The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or any...
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, an...
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato,...
RUDYARD KIPLING Your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half devil and half child.
RUDYARD KIPLING An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded und...
RUDYARD KIPLING A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
RUDYARD KIPLING 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
RUDYARD KIPLING Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B...
RUDYARD KIPLING 'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
RUDYARD KIPLING There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.
RUDYARD KIPLING It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ...
RUDYARD KIPLING If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son prais...
RUDYARD KIPLING The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
RUDYARD KIPLING Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
RUDYARD KIPLING What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?
RUDYARD KIPLING Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.
RUDYARD KIPLING Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The ha...
RUDYARD KIPLING There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.
RUDYARD KIPLING And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B...
RUDYARD KIPLING The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
RUDYARD KIPLING Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
RUDYARD KIPLING Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.
RUDYARD KIPLING When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leade...
RUDYARD KIPLING All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.
RUDYARD KIPLING What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)
RUDYARD KIPLING There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu...
RUDYARD KIPLING I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf...
RUDYARD KIPLING Threatened men live long.
RUDYARD KIPLING Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.
RUDYARD KIPLING Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds pu...
RUDYARD KIPLING It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.
RUDYARD KIPLING I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and ...
RUDYARD KIPLING East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
RUDYARD KIPLING