While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer:God Bless America.Land that I loveStand beside her, and guide herThru the night with a light from above.From the mountains, to the prairies,To the oceans, white with foamGod bless AmericaMy home sweet home.God Bless America,Land that I loveStand beside her,And guide her,Through the nightWith the light from above,From the mountains,To the prairies,To the ocean,White with foam,God bless America,My home sweet home.God bless America,My home sweet home.
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Related While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,... IRVING BERLIN Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave. DAVE GROHL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE to the victor go the spoils THE AMERICA We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE God bless Taiwan! Let us join in unity to protect this land and the common future of the 23 million ... CHEN SHUI-BIAN They sacrificed. They paid the ultimate price. God bless their souls and God bless America. JACK CLARK When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace. TREVOR HUDDLESTON The Supreme Lord God has unleashed the rain clouds. Over the sea and over the land - over all the ea... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea... ALAN BENNETT God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience. DOUGLAS ADAMS Bless God, America. LINDEN SUMMER Gentle sleep!
Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;
And in new dreams not soon to vanish, ... HORACE (HORATIO) SMITH Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zati... DOUGLAS ADAMS I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. DOUGLAS ADAMS The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizab... DOUGLAS ADAMS This Arthur Dent," comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been foun... DOUGLAS ADAMS I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ... LILLIAN S. VILORIA When the first light of sun, Bless you. When the long day is done, Bless you. In your smiles and you... IRISH BLESSINGS Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. PERICLES And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We h... QURAN But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest he... DAVE WINFIELD It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to ne... DOUGLAS ADAMS To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender; / God bless - no harm in blessing - the Pretender; ... JOHN BYROM God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender;
God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender;
... JOHN BYROM Bravery itself is freedom......God bless America PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL There are no limitations to the riches that God wants to bless us with SUNDAY ADELAJA God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. RUSSELL CROWE It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now h... G.K. CHESTERTON I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST Together, We will make America strong again. We will make wealthy again. We will make America proud ... DONALD TRUMP Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON O Motherland! Bless us with a benevolent mind! Help us realize all the knowledge with the each passi... ATHARVA VEDA My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my father... SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Please bless us with benevolence and keep us away from miserliness. RIG VEDA Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually. JIMI HENDRIX If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will st... LED ZEPPELIN The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea; / And musing there an hour alone, ... LORD BYRON Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let ... WILLIAM PENNINGTON your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a searc... CARL SANDBURG The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere.... PETER BERGEN There are 30,000 families whose land has been lost to the sea. And with the best will in the world d... DOUGLAS KEATINGE Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL She rears her young on yonder tree;
She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em;
Like us, for fis... ALEXANDER WILSON Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds ... R.C. SPROUL JR. These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r... CONNILYN COSSETTE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Darkness is nothing but an opportunity to spread light JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history AMY TAN The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo... HENRY WARD BEECHER I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm ... DAVID LEVITHAN you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition... DAVID MAHONEY Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL Bless the world. Let it be a wonderful world with love, peace, joy and happiness. AMIT RAY I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what i... KIERA CASS Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet. 'Not always,' I countered. 'Yes, alw... RUTA SEPETYS He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresse... DOUGLAS ADAMS Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pa... DOUGLAS ADAMS The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they we... DOUGLAS ADAMS Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS Home, is where the heart longs to be when you dream. KATHERINE DIVOLIS Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST Welcome to America, the Land of the Fee and the Home of the Slave. SEAN KEVIN SWEENEY Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
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