"I explained we lost the porch to the……" — Franny Billingsley
"I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down."
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Franny Billingsley
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67 Quotes by Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley has 67 quotes on this site.
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I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but…
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The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks.…
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...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and…
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I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the…
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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe…
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight,…
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It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
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A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its…
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes…
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I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself…
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I have some questions about betrayal,” I said. “Think about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and…
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More Carpenter Quotes
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax…
— Lewis Carroll
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -…
— David Amram
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
— Jonathan Swift
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Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with…
— Anthony de Mello
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Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys…
— Ralphie May
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Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to…
— Jack Kerouac
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Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and…
— John Jay Chapman
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone…
— Anthony of Padua
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I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're…
— Betty Buckley
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