"I was a great dreamer of day dreams."

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Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.10, Courier Corporation

Abraham Cahan

#Dream Quotes #Dreamer Quotes #Great Day Quotes

“Jesus began to lean forward and rise from His seat. As the anointing caught in the folds of His garments, it began to splash out and fall over the church. Jesus said, "I am beginning to rise now in preparation for my second coming. Those who will rise with Me will share in this double portion of anointing."”
“Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.”
“If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.”

Source : "The end of the line?" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2008.
“I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.”
“To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying”
“If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.”
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
“In changing times, we should all lend our support to the independent retailers. Without independent retailers, many of the biggest names in music would still be undiscovered. They break new artists and movements. We all know the industry is changing, but we can't forget where we came from.”

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