Alfred Billings Street famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.
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Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
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The home of the homeless all over the earth.
-- Alfred Billings Street
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.
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Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.
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The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.
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I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.
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In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.
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We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
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