Ellen Raskin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
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Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.
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Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler
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The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo
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I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
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The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
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I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.
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Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!
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Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.
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Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
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Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
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When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.
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Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.
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My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’
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Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
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