Phineas Quotes

8 quotes from 3 authors

While legends paint Phineas as a bold adventurer, these eight excerpts reveal a softer, considerate side. One voice notes his obliging nature that keeps him from the spotlight, another recalls a river‑side memory blending admiration with melancholy. For more literary archetypes, see the Mythic Heroes page.

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“I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of…

John Knowles

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“Now, in this winter of snow and crutches with Phineas, I begin to know that each morning reasserted the problems of the…

John Knowles

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“I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of sixteen. We were registered with no draft board, we…

John Knowles

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“As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of…

john knowles

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“Hakimu na Kuhani Mkuu wa Shilo Eli alipata matatizo makubwa wakati wa mgogoro wa Waisraeli na Wafilisti, kati ya mwaka 2871 na…

Enock Maregesi

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“I turned with an inward groan to look at him. Quackenbush wasn't going to let me just do the work for him…

John Knowles

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“I've come to gamble." The old man's mouth twitched. He put down his shish kebab and leaned toward Percy. "A gamble...how interesting.…

Rick Riordan

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“Must like the rest of us on the surface, he had an underlying obliging and considerate strain which barred him from being…

john knowles

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