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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.


Rudyard Kipling

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PAT CONROY My mother bore me in the southern wild, / And I am black, but O! my soul is white.
WILLIAM BLAKE TEDDY DAY POEM:
A bear hug for you,
and I would make you forget your sorrows!
I’ll ...
VIKRMN O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would no...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON CHOCOLATE DAY POEM:
"Chocolate, dark or light..
Makes me smile bright.
Chocolate, whe...
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LIZZIE ARMITSTEAD But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
BIBLE Would I have him do this? N-o-o-o-o, ... Am I being supportive? You bet.
JOHN GLENN O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me? What can min...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sigur, eu sunt un clovn amuzant pentru o după-amiază, după care toți se satură de mine pentru o...
ANNE FRANK O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope.

-Leia Organa
IAN DOESCHER O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity That it went h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they u...
VING RHAMES One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever h...
PHOEBE CARY O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
ELIZABETH KENNY O love, O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh de...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
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FRANK MCCOURT O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name! The one ne'er got me credit, the other m...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W.B. YEATS My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B'...
BOOBOO STEWART O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.
JOSEPH ERNST RENAN O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
ANNE BOLEYN Wherever I am, I start my day, it's the same. I'm not an early bird. I'm not waking up a...
ROUSTAM TARIKO O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
ALFRED TENNYSON O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight d...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Have some Jell-O
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JANE BIRKIN A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
BETTY WHITE O Nanak, they are forever the happy soul-brides, whose light merges into His Light.
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SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep...
BIBLE Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
ALLEN GINSBERG My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Just give me a whole page o' Lex.
JACK WELCH O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! - O happy Rome, born when I was consul!
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO She gets s-o-o-o-o intense before games. I just told her to relax, go out and have some fun.
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SABRINA CARPENTER O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick.
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RACHAEL RAY [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much Tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to gre...
ZIG ZIGLAR HERMIA
God speed fair Helena! whither away?

HELENA
Call you me fair? that fair ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm 5 o'clock lightning, for sure.
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BIBLE My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem ...
ORSON WELLES Would the cook were o' my mind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body...
W.B. YEATS O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
WALT WHITMAN Birds build - but not I build; no, but strain,/ Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. / ...
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GURU NANAK O may the least omission pain/ My well-instructed soul,/ And drive me to the blood again/ Which make...
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND O my prophetic soul! My uncle?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.
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SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) O Rome! my country! city of the soul!
GEORGE GORDON Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'...
DIANE LADD É o caminhante que escolhe o caminho ou o caminho o caminhante?
GARTH NIX Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.
TONI BRAXTON O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la gra...
CAROLINE MATILDA I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.
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APURVA GAGLANI Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fa...
BIBLE O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
And shall I couple Hell?
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HEBER J. GRANT If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is...
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ICE CUBE I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no e...
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BILL BURR I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.
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MARY TYLER MOORE How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic mom...
LARENZ TATE O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Baba, union with the True One cannot be broken, bless me with your prayers for union with my Belov...
GURU NANAK O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem
FREDERICK OAKELEY I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my li...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
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RUDYARD KIPLING The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees.
RUDYARD KIPLING Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of t...
RUDYARD KIPLING . . . an angry skipper makes an unhappy crew . . .
RUDYARD KIPLING And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall...
RUDYARD KIPLING Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall kee...
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
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