Elise Broach famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.
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My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.
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A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!
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That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.
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The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
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But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.
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A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287
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There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.
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I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
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You have to care for all beings created by God...My mission is to help any person in need.
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
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You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
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