"For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. I believe that's the third oldest university chair in the country."

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Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Hershel Shanks

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Years Quotes

“Other sports culminate at different times of the year, but the NFL is in the fourth quarter - that's where the money is.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.”
“Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable.”
“If God dropped acid, would he see people?”
“There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media
“Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.”
“You've got to be tough to win.”
“Lately I've been runnin' on faith. What else can a poor boy do?”

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