County Quotes - Page 2

• The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

  Robert James Waller

  Dream, Work Out, Vision

  "Putting some muscle into the much" by Paula Span, www.washingtonpost.com. May 28, 1995.

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• I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Baby, Arkansas, Newspapers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  People, Welfare, Indifferent

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• Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

  Frank Woolley

  Believe, Cutting, Squares

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• More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

  Patricia Ireland

  Opportunity, Miami, Looks

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• At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

  Marla Sokoloff

  Artist, Opportunity, Idols

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

  John Woolman

  Years, West, Jersey

  John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.51, Boston : J.R. Osgood

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• My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

  Paul Nurse

  Mother, Father, Years

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• First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

  Mac Davis

  Kids, Redneck, Texas

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• In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

  Robert James Waller

  Love, Dream, Matter

  "The Bridges of Madison County". Book by Robert James Waller, 1992.

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• My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Brother, School, Parish

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

  Robert James Waller

  Magic, Going Away, Analysis

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.39, Random House

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• At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

  Paul Nurse

  School, Boys, Age

  Autobiography by Paul Nurse, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.

  Anne Grant

  Texas, Friendly, Information

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• It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

  Robert James Waller

  Moving, Ignorance, Years

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• Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country

  Tony Randall

  Country, Government, Should Have

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• The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

  Cole Younger

  Long, People, Peculiar

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• Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

  Cole Younger

  Fighting, Independence, Citizens

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• I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

  Sally Rand

  Boys, Born, Raised

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• The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

  Simon Newcomb

  Teaching, Fifteen, Twenties

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

  Lynn Woolsey

  Night, Domestic Violence, Lines

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• A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.

  Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene

  Book, Taken, Court Judges

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• If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  People, Immigration, Republican

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• The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's
  sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of
  ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

  Amy Bloom

  Children, Ignorance, Library

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• One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt." One study of 30 California counties over several decades found that, for every 10% increase in road capacity, traffic increased by 9% within four years.

  David B. Sandalow

  Years, California, Trying

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