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Lay Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at…
- They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse…
- Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment,…
- He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on…
- He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the…
- He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false…
- The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west…
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- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. — Francis Bacon
- When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I… — Drew Barrymore
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams
- We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time. — Bernard Baruch
- To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. — Ambrose Bierce
- I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I… — Judy Blume