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326 Gave Us quotes by 288 unique authors

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high… — Ali Smith
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women… — Barbra Streisand
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he… — William Shakespeare
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a… — Harper Lee
When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep. — Benjamin Franklin
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these… — Thomas Jefferson
The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come… — Rick Riordan
In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They… — John Grogan
God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to… — Alan Brennert
The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and… — David Sedaris
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and… — Sigrid Undset
[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of… — Sheri S. Tepper
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us… — Margaret Atwood
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. — Alan Moore
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
In fact, my mother always says that emotions are what the gods gave us to distract us from the pain of life. They are what… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful… — Margaret Atwood
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire? — Lisa See
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set… — Henry B. Eyring
One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger. — Pittacus Lore
We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They… — Bernard Cornwell
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. — Harper Lee
I sat up and the blankets fell away.I looked down and found I was wearing pokemon pajamas. "Sadie,"I said,"I'm going to kill you." She batted… — Rick Riordan

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