Fetch Quotes

• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

  Voltaire

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  "Historical and Critical Memoirs of the Life and Writings of M. de Voltaire". Book by Louis Mayeul Chaudon, p. 348, 1786.

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• Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale

  Edward Coke

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• If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

  William Throsby Bridges

  Jesus, Blood, Evil

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• Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen. It’s not going to happen!

  Regina George

  Mean Girls, Trying, This Girl

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• If you're from Africa, why are you white?

  Amanda Seyfried

  Mean Girls, White, Ifs

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• I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me [Gretchen Wieners], but I can’t help it that I’m popular.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Mean Girls, Sorry, Jealous

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• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  Gary Oldman

  Guitar, Would Be, Faces

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• A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Laughter, Children

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• Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Dog, Women, Littles

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.26, The Floating Press

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• Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

  John Milton

  Running, Time, Age

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 14

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• Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Nice, Dirty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

  Richard Sibbes

  Prayer, Devil, Knows

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• Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

  Ben Hecht

  Party, Greatness, Glowing

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• I can put my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?

  Karen Smith

  Mean Girls, Mouths, Fists

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• You all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It only makes it okay for guys to call you sluts and whores.

  Tina Fey

  Mean Girls, Guy, Calling

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• I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom.

  Regina George

  Mean Girls, Mom, Cool Moms

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• Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said by the other two Shining Ones, These are the men that have loved our Lord when they were in the world, and that have left all for his holy name; and he hath sent us to fetch them, and we have brought them thus far on their desired journey, that they may go in and look their Redeemer in the face with joy. Then the heavenly host gave a great shout, saying, 'Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'

  John Bunyan

  Blessed, Journey, Men

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.126, Delphi Classics

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• The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks, thereby freeing humans from having to perform these tedious yet vital tasks.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• I am a man, and men do not drink pink drinks. Now, be gone, woman, and fetch me something brown." Jace said. "Brown?" said Isabelle. "Yes. Brown. It's a manly color. See? Alec is wearing it." Jace said. "Well, it was black but it faded." Alec said. "Well, I can always fix it up with something sparkly," Magnus said, holding a sparkley headband. "Resist the urge, Alec, resist the urge." Simon said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Color, Black

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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Blood

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clothes, Car, Bed

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.265, Macmillan

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• Stay here til I come to fetch you." I no longer recognize you in the Republic of Joy," I loftily informed him. "Our diplomatic ties are severed." Unsever them," he growled, "or the Country of Raphael will be forced to declare your republic a protectorate." Dictator," I muttered. For life," he agreed.

  Katie MacAlister

  Country, Ties, Joy

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• And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Kissing, Tears

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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