Ran Quotes - Page 33

• Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  People, Asking, Firsts

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• Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
  But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
  Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
  Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
  Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
  Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
  The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

  John Dryden

  Life, Fate, Autumn

  "Oedipus: A Tragedy".

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• There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and shadow would not be able to follow him and then he never ever had to look at them again. He ran and he ran as fast as he could, but the shadow and the footprints had no problems keeping up to him. And he ran even faster and all of a sudden he fell dead to the ground. But if he been standing still there hadn't been any footprints and if he had been resting under a tree his shadow had been swallowed of the trees shadow.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Men, Tree, Shadow

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• We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Dad, Mind Your Own Business, Sausage

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• As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.

  Marriner Stoddard Eccles

  Men, Hands, Games

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• Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran? It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don't see any other explanation.

  Ai Yazawa

  Glasses, Shoes, Perfect

  "Nana". Manga by Ai Yazawa, 2000 - 2009.

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• When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

  Flavor Flav

  Jail, People, Police

  "Hip-hop, you don't stop" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on its feet at intermission. They stepped, strutted, stomped, romped, ran rung, hung, flung, flew, threw and played their way through 16 numbers (17 if you count the percussion encore in the lobby that stopped the departing crowd in its collective tracks). It was Blast! and it was fantastic. That said, the show is a cacophony of color and creativity a musical montage offering nearly two hours of stimuli.

  Jan Perry

  Creativity, Thinking, Feet

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• I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

  Susan Boyle

  Sister, Brother, Cat

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• And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

  Sela Ward

  Money, Jobs, Television Commercials

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• I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

  DeForest Kelley

  Hunting, Fishing, Tadpoles

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• But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

  Laurie Lee

  Years, Kitchen, Growing

  Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”

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• I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

  Jimmy Connors

  Tennis, Lost

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• You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

  Michael Jordan

  Stupid, Play, Teammate

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• Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

  Paul Shepard

  Horse, Men, Years

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• The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

  Paul Shepard

  Endurance, Hunters, Humans

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• The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

  William Dampier

  Morning, August, Land

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.114, tredition

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• It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain, playing with the children who had inexplicably materialized out of nowhere at the first whiff of a movie star. Their faces radiated and they took turns gently stroking his head. Those Benji chose to favor with a big sloppy lick exploded with laughter, and one young girl ran to her mother, screeching in French that she would never wash her face again.

  Joe Camp

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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• ... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.

  Stephen King

  Wisdom, Baby, Growing Up

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• Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

  Esther Williams

  Girl, Sports, Issues

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• I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

  Mick Mulvaney

  Ceilings, Would Be, Debt

  "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.

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• If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.

  Maddox

  World, Wheels, Stills

  "Twenty-six things a perfect guy would do, and other propaganda disseminated by misguided women". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.

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• Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

  Pierre Albert-Birot

  Running, Children, Writing

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• Running through my mind are thoughts of all the races I ran. On my chest are medals from the races I won. In my heart is gratitude to Gerard Hartmann for helping make my dreams come true. I am very honoured to be a part of this wonderful book.

  Douglas Wakiihuri

  Running, Dream, Gratitude

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• My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

  Matthew McGrory

  Shoes, Chicago, Running Out Of Time

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