Twelve Quotes - Page 24

• After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before.

  Leigh Newman

  Baby, Brother, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.238

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• In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Latin, Writing

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Mom, Grandpa, Drunk

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend everyone edit a literary magazine at some point. It's time-consuming, but there's a lot to learn from other writers who are also learning. The patterns (twelve stories about whales in this batch?) are also interesting.

  Mary J. Miller

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

  Cecily McMillan

  Mother, Struggle, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Change, Years, White

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• There is only one basic desire that motivates the spiritual seeker-to make the experience of God, of divine bliss and joy, the center of the life experience. We are spiritual beings living in a material universe, and as such, our first priority is to nurture that eternal part of us. The eleventh step of AA's twelve-step program states it beautifully: "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out."

  Douglas Bloch

  God, Spiritual, Prayer

  Douglas Bloch (2015). “A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom”, p.27, BookBaby

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• In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Two, Paris

  1939 Madeline.

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• The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Running, Adventure

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.

  Belva Plain

  Family, Grief, Blood

  Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.441, Dell

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• If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Running, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine and never looked back. I practiced every day for ten to twelve hours a day - spiritual studies, meditation, pranayama, yoga postures, Ayurvedic studies, deep, deep, powerful cleansings and fasting.

  Brad Willis

  Spiritual, Powerful, Yoga

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

  Anne Roiphe

  Thinking, Different, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

  Paul Haggis

  War, Iraq, Answers

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• Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the goddess of the sun and moon.""The tale gets stranger and stranger," Daniel said."Just wait until act seven," Miss Wynter told him."Seven?" His head snapped up. "There are seven acts?""Twelve," Harriet corrected, "but don't worry, you're in only eleven of them. Now then, Miss Wynter, when do you propose that we begin our rehearsals? And may we do so out of doors? There is a clearing by the gazebo that would be ideal.

  Julia Quinn

  Moon, Doors, Work Out

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• A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand and grasp very subtle things which otherwise elude his intellect. Through that understanding the aspirant can have direct vision of God. That pure understanding alone enables him to realize Truth.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Men, Years

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• I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Player, Years, Nba

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

  Casey Spooner

  Want, Lasts, Hours

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a known pedophile and his four perverse friends, and the news broke of the bodies of two children, dead after long-term physical abuse, found in a storage locker in California. What hardest for me is, I suppose, what's hardest for my country

  Laura Mullen

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Years, Two, People

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• When I was eleven or twelve years old, I became for a while fixated on the question whether there could be two 'identical' stones. This is, of course, the question whether the principle of identity of indiscernibles is true and, as I formulated it then, I was bound to fall into confusion about it.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Fall, Years, Two

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.

  Bernie Siegel

  Father, Kids, World

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.

  Mike Vallely

  Kids, Yelling, Talking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]...." That's happening less and less now, but all it takes is one of those when you're nine, ten, eleven, twelve - and it's hard to describe to people who aren't, because of course if you're not gay, an eleven- or twelve-year-old wouldn't even remember that that happened.

  Stephen Karam

  Gay, Years, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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