Babe Quotes - Page 9

• God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Wise, Jesus

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• I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

  Peter Mullan

  Military, Leader, Arbitrary

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• So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Sea, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

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• What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Christmas, Mother, Kings

  Richard Watson Gilder (2013). “The Celestial Passion”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas, Shepherds, Born

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.608

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• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes?

  Luther Burbank

  Fear, Book, Voice

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• Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

  William Osler

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.133, Duke University Press

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• BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Baby, Sex, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages.  You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.

  Peter Golenbock

  Character, Opportunity, Purple

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• It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs.

  Andrew Symonds

  Hunting, Australia, Pigs

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• A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Heart, Mute

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.2, l.267-8 (published 1850).

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• I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'

  Pete Wentz

  Children, Real, Cartoon

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 19, 2008.

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• A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Possibility, Bundles

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

  William Blake

  Tears, Eternity

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.495, Univ of California Press

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• The wonder and awe of Christmas is just a beginning. Christmas reminds us that the babe born in Bethlehem has given us purpose for living, and what happens next to us largely depends on how we embrace our Savior, Jesus Christ, and follow Him.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Jesus, Purpose, Next

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• The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Ends, Womb

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.711, Pearson Education

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• Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.

  Robert Southwell

  Lying, Silly, Winter

  Saint Robert Southwell, William Joseph Walter (1817). “St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems”, p.47

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• Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.

  Francois Fenelon

  Men, Heaven, Dying

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.

  George Gascoigne

  Womanly

  George Gascoigne, John W. Cunliffe (2012). “The Complete Works of George Gascoigne: Volume 1, The Posies”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Voice, House, Dumb

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 562, 1895.

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• Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.

  Harry Chapin

  Pain, Rain, Worry

  Song: Short Stories, Album: Short Stories

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• Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin's as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You're so afraid to be nice There's no way you're ready To let your defenses down Though I won't come on heavy There is a lesson that I've found.

  Harry Chapin

  Nice, Eye, Gun

  Song: If You Want To Feel, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• And I know you're frightened By my laughter But you're not afraid To hold my pain You see I'm never sure Just what you're after, Babe But it seems you only love me When it rains. How come you only love me when it rains?

  Harry Chapin

  Laughter, Pain, Rain

  Song: It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains, Album: Living Room Suite

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• Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.

  Stephen Crane

  Father, War, Yellow

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

  Andy Partridge

  Mother, Real, Brave

  Song: Human Alchemy

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