Rummage Sales Quotes

• He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

  Beverly Cleary

  Shoes, Different, Stores

  Beverly Cleary (1988). “Ramona Quimby, age 8”, Yearling Books

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• My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.

  Haven Kimmel

  Real, Hair, Looks

  Haven Kimmel (2007). “She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.

  Patricia Hampl

  Missing, Essentials, Dialect

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• [On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

  Mary Jo Putney

  New York, Home, Cities

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”

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• The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we can learn from the early church. I think it is a really exciting time where Phyllis Tickle said every few hundred years the church needs a rummage sale where we can get rid of some of the clutter.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Years, Church

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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