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Madam, my father has left me flopping like a flounder at low tide and you say what's the matter.


Harper Lee

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NANCY GRACE At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.
THAI PROVERB I am no king, and I am no lord,
And I am no soldier at-arms," said he.
"I'm none but a har...
PETER S. BEAGLE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and ...
HARPER LEE Everyone reads Harper Lee personally. For me, 'Mockingbird' was about admitting my own hyphe...
MARGARET STOHL I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I r...
MARGARET STOHL Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.
KATE HARPER My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.
CELINA JADE Speed is never guaranteed. There's definitely high tide and low tide.
BRUCE KASREL My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see so...
KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspape...
ROBERT HARRIS He always left a nice drink for me. He was just like a father to me, although he never spoke my name...
LEO LATLIP When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air....
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS We go to oyster bars at low tide and find them under rocks and oyster shells.
VINCENT LESTER Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
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VANESSA KERRY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I don't like you. I don't like how your hair smells, and how I can't stop thinking about waking up a...
CHELSEA M. CAMERON Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill ...
BERKELEY BREATHED He has always been Coach Ingram to me. He was my high school coach. I've known him 30-plus years. He...
DARRYL BURROWS A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but h...
HARPER LEE This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H...
MELINA MARCHETTA In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE You are nothing like my father. And like my father you are nothing.
EDUARDO C. CORRAL You hate to say it, but that changed the complexion of the game. Honestly, the tide of the game chan...
BRAD JADWIN I'm an idiot like you said, so whatever you say about me doesn't matter, but you know... Don't you d...
KAZUE KATO He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?
I blow my nose. take off t...
ALICE WALKER At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN At the Apollo, he asked me to come and stand in for him. He's like my father.
AL SHARPTON A lot of the momentum we started, he has allowed to flounder,
DON SIEGELMAN In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!
BOB MARLEY My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmis...
CHRISTOPHER LEE My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins whe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE If my father ever told me that, ... I'd tear the corner off a piece of paper and say, 'There you are...
BILL COSBY In low tide, the eelgrass meadows lay over flat on the mud flats. On a high tide, they go vertical. ...
TOM GASKILL My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me Weary and old with service.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober
SAMUEL JOHNSON My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me...
ACTION BRONSON Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
AMOR TOWLES See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...
JODI PICOULT They left my kids without a father.
LUZ MARTINEZ People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
CARINE ROITFELD You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.
Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a ...
CHARLES DICKENS My father, a closet astronomer, has tried to explain black holes to me, how they are so heavy they a...
JODI PICOULT My strength has been the self-belief that has helped me perform at this level. My teammates and fami...
ANIL KUMBLE We've got people leading the team like defender Shawn Anderson, Van Harper at midfield and at forwar...
BILL MOSELEY The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.
RUPI KAUR My brother's an inspiration to me. He dedicated himself like he was a monk at a monastery. He has sh...
MICHAEL MCKINNEY My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ...
JACKIE CHAN I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life an...
CORY BOOKER As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY My father, that silhouette, a form comprised of all I did not
know, a shape filled with rain. "...
JANET FITCH Father told me if I ever met a lady in a (very low-cut) dress like yours, I must look her straight i...
PRINCE CHARLES I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulle...
TALIB KWELI A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) When challenged, he was flopping around like a half-dead fish.
LINDY RUFF Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for al...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing...
DAN AYRES See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that
someone has left this world,...
JODI PICOULT When Cash woke up, he knew immediately something was wrong. Even without looking, he knew; Harper wa...
SUMMER HINES I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL If John Grisham, Harper Lee, and Larry the Cable Guy were penned up in a remote cabin for a weekend ...
J. RANDOLPH CRESENZO A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can trea...
DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experi...
FRANCESCO QUINN But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't...
GLORIA STEINEM My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the...
CLAUDE MONET Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide
AHMAD ARDALAN When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ta...
ERMA BOMBECK When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ta...
ERMA BOMBECK When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ta...
ERMA BOMBECK When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend m...
CAMILLE PAGLIA The tide has pulled the storm from my soul, again.
NICOLE LYONS We are at a low. But I wouldn't say it's a low where we are tossing in the towel and giving up and s...
BOBBY JONES My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsma...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ I was very angry. I was hurt inside. You can say like father, like son. Some of my kids were angry t...
ALLIE SALLUVINIQ Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is ...
WILL SMITH My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at ...
DAVID STEINBERG I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. SMITH Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.
LITA BURKE I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
PAUL DESMOND (Hammond's) guy left it up and Lee just got around.
JEFF TAGEANT My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You kno...
J. R. MARTINEZ Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, a...
BIBLE Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want...
MONICA BELLUCCI My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter o...
EMMELINE PANKHURST Mark has identified that he would like Lee on a permanent basis,
BARRY FRY My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
NATALIE WOOD Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
ELIZABETH GASKELL Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ...
DREXEL DEAL The time when Europe competed mostly with countries that offered low-skilled work at low wages has g...
ANDREAS SCHLEICHER When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ta...
ERMA BOMBECK My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a succes...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. When my father died it left me without any financial support. At the age of fifteen I ran off to Bue...
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BEN HARPER It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from...
BEN HARPER The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPER It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or...
BEN HARPER If you don't like my fire, Then don't come around Cause I'm gonna burn one down.
BEN HARPER Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds a...
BEN HARPER Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds a...
BEN HARPER It's so hard to so, so easy to say. But sometimes, sometimes you just have to walk away.
BEN HARPER You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now i know I've made the mistake in the past. But n...
BEN HARPER I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would comm...
HILL HARPER That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don...
STEPHEN HARPER For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever...
BOB HARPER Grandma Ruthie and her sister Jettie hadn't spoken a civil word in about fifteen years. Their last e...
MOLLY HARPER because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Bost...
MOLLY HARPER CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you ha...
BOB HARPER My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.
BEN HARPER I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there i...
STEPHEN HARPER I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get...
ROY HARPER Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's ...
BEN HARPER Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - '...
HILL HARPER When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creati...
BEN HARPER Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or...
BRYCE HARPER I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
BRYCE HARPER It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fix...
BRYCE HARPER My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continen...
HILL HARPER The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; ...
BEN HARPER Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me n...
HILL HARPER I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...
BEN HARPER I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal...
BEN HARPER I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local p...
MOLLY HARPER