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But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war,… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
One day the wind blew through the town, and oh, how merry it was! It whistled down the chimneys, and scampered round… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us… — Keith Coogan Copy Share Image
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the… — Lynne Cheney Copy Share Image
If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was… — Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding… — Al Madrigal Copy Share Image
The counties with the highest per capita income aren't near New York City or Los Angeles - they're in the Washington, D.C.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns,… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
I once had a letter from a man who asked to do something very weird. He told me he wanted to sit… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them.… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
Stay out of this, Zebulon. (Dolophoni) You guys come to my town, you don’t call. You don’t write. And you expect me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle… — Kesh Copy Share Image
It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety… — King C. Gillette Copy Share Image
Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
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