and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
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Related Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i... ROBERT WINSTON I was driving home last night, and they were conducting a taste test on the radio. LINDA BAIN Most investigators conducting research make that determination themselves. JANE DUFFIELD As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same ti... DAVID HARE I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I wa... DAVID NEWMAN The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation. ELLEN SMITH It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business traveler... MARK HALL I guess you thought I was conducting, but I wasn't. EUGENE ORMANDY I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It ma... NANCY JOHNSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES No one knows me better than Alexis and she understands my way of conducting business and dealing wit... MARTHA STEWART My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. CATHY LADMAN I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It ma... NANCY JOHNSON The ocean asks for nothing but those
who stand by her shores
gradually attune themselves to her rhyt... CHARLES DICKENS Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. BARBARA OLSON Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless on... JOHN DEWEY Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few race... CHRISTIAN DIOR That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility ... JANIS KARPINSKI The real art of conducting consists in transitions. GUSTAV MAHLER Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a ... SIRI HUSTVEDT At the time, there was a group in town called VSA Arts, and they wanted to launch classes for people... DOUGLAS SCOTT It's about the camaraderie. Not all go in every year. If it was 0 degrees, I wouldn't go in. Forty d... DICK HILL If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight. MARGARET THATCHER We're conducting a thorough investigation into the death of this child, which entails an autopsy. We... MAJ. KIMMY NESTER The State of Michigan Office of Children and Adult Licensing has also been notified of the allegatio... DIANE HILL Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one I think it is. MARK TWAIN The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, / Beside th... BIBLE And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. BIBLE For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it ... MICHEL ONFRAY Every man over forty is a scoundrel. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often ... MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising:
There are forty feeding like one! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of ... BIBLE They've also said that they're going to be conducting a comprehensive investigation not only into th... ADAM ERELI Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've take... BETTE DAVIS There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. ANDREW SHUE I walked to Montevallo.' 'Forty miles?!' 'Forty-two,' he corrected me. 'Well. Forty-two th... JOHN GREEN We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. AL ATTLES Feedback from the special forces conducting the raid, TOMMY FRANKS forty is VICTOR HUGO Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundre... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We are currently conducting inquiries. HELEN OLAFSDOTTIR One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of t... ALLISON JANNEY The documents say they were conducting some kind of investigation. That implies we were under survei... JIM KLEISSLER We're still conducting a number of tests, but the early results are encouraging. DOUG WARD I now understand that I would never have been able to become a plausible critic of the absurdities o... THOMAS C. ODEN Forty-two years down and one to go. LES KYNETT Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you ... KEVIN BARRY This was our fourth year conducting our count and we've learned a lot over the years. FRAN WINTER My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. DUKE SNIDER Forty is not bad. It means you are still growing. SKIP RIMER Most of the inspectors, even though they have technical skills, are not experienced in conducting in... JONATHAN TUCKER Every man over forty is responsible for his face. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. I... JOHN BOYNE Web users are conducting more searches not because they can't find what they're looking for, but bec... KEN CASSAR Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN Rather than protests, we are asking Muslims to use their energy in getting the message across by con... RABIAH AHMED One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!' And a little later you adde... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The cleanliness is essential to conducting nano-scale research. GEORGE ADAMS Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly ho... DIANA GABALDON There was another silence, while Marjorie considered whether or not convincing her mother was worth ... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD We are still interviewing witnesses and conducting an investigation, but it's starting to look like ... DOUG COLE For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had thre... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm... MARCEL DUCHAMP The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss... ESA-PEKKA SALONEN It is both disgusting and heartbreaking to see our guys on our side of the aisle conducting themselv... TOM SLADE seconds he was forty, fifty yards ANTHONY HOROWITZ The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. DICK CHENEY Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the pe... RANDY NEUGEBAUER However, this does not relieve the title company from fulfilling its obligation of conducting search... DAVE HERNANDEZ I was taught in church that I am a child of God. I also read the Old Testament. There is a story in ... M.E. THOMAS One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. ... ALLISON JANNEY For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and ever... BIBLE Forty-four people died, this is certain, and one survived. LASZLO GARAMVOLGYI They have been in this square for months, drinking alcohol and conducting their marital relations fo... AHMED HASSAN It was a surrender and it was based on some negotiations that we've been conducting over the last fe... LOUIS FREEH We all know why we are here. This is as much about deterrence as it is conducting investigations. CHRIS SWECKER I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some... JANE RULE They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtors' ... CORT JENSEN They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtor's ... CORT JENSEN There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family. DAVID NEWMAN Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. BIBLE They [the government] has been attacking our people, who are conducting a peaceful march in show of ... GEORGE ISHAQ We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single
excuse. BISHOP REGINALD HEBER We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. RUDYARD KIPLING Everyone else was trying hard, but they weren't rotating, weren't playing as a team. It was like the... LESLIE VERSLUES This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a ver... ESA-PEKKA SALONEN In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lo... DOUGLAS ADAMS And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred. BIBLE Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reform... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The most important feature [in the briefing] is the line that the FBI was conducting 70 full field i... SLADE GORTON The students write songs of themselves. First they draw paintings about what they feel and see to ge... LEE KEYLOCK ...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done c... PAUL HOFFMAN The panning shot of the soldiers as they ready themselves for the onslaught and now I finally see th... LIZA PALMER The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture. DAVID LLOYD It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and c... WILLIAM GODWIN Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciate... JAY CARSON American soldiers and Marines are out there every day in dangerous conditions and desert temperature... DICK CHENEY
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