Her Back Quotes
182 quotes by 155 authors
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I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the…
— Eric Cantor
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Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you,…
— William H. Masters
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Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
— James Russell Lowell
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A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the…
— Jules Verne
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Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went…
— James Howell
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His laughter echoed through my mind. I have a beautiful woman in my arms, and am taking her back to my home, where she and…
— Katie MacAlister
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She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and…
— Louis Bromfield
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How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."…
— Neil Gaiman
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There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart…
— Edith Wharton
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I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs…
— Michael Chabon
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A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage,…
— Anne Bishop
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If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields…
— Isak Dinesen
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So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up…
— Alice Sebold
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They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.…
— A. S. Byatt
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She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we…
— Elizabeth Berg
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After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.…
— Markus Zusak
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I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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