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• A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Nature, Voice, Rivers

  Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.56

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• Kvetha, Shur'tugal Greetings, Dragon Rider

  Christopher Paolini

  Dragons, Riders

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• Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.

  Nancy Mairs

  Girl, Children, Cat

  Nancy Mairs (1992). “Plaintext”, University of Arizona Press

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• Chime out, thou little song of Spring,
  Float in the blue skies ravishing.
  Thy song-of-life a joy doth bring
  That's sweet, albeit fleeting.
  Float on the Spring-winds e'en to my home:
  And when thou to a rose shalt come
  That hath begun to show her bloom,
  Say, I send her greeting!

  Sidney Lanier

  Song, Sweet, Spring

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.235, University of Georgia Press

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• Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

  A. R. Rahman

  New Year, Years, India

  FaceBook post by A.R. Rahman from Jan 22, 2015

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• On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and best wishes to the men and women of India who will henceforth be a citizen of a republic. I feel deeply thankful for the affection showered on me by all sections of the people, which alone enabled me to hear the burden of an office to the duties and conventions of which I had been an utter stranger.

  C. Rajagopalachari

  Men, People, Best Wishes

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• When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."

  Diogenes

  Sunshine, Littles, Wanted

  "Life of Alexander (Parallel Lives series)". Book by Plutarch, 1579.

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• Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day.

  Kristen Proby

  Love, Flower, Romance

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• If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

  Paul Saffo

  Singing, Cards, World

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• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, War, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Birthday, Funeral, Cards

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.

  Laurie Lee

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Laurie Lee (2011). “Cider With Rosie”, p.36, Random House

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• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  Olivia Williams

  Wrinkles, Getting Older, Skins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Eye, Romance, Taste Buds

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.113, Penguin

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• You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?

  Ann Althouse

  Kids, Home, Ties

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• Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

  Thurgood Marshall

  Baby, Justice, Burgers

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• A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.

  King C. Gillette

  Razors, Common, Quitting

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• We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

  Brené Brown

  Love, Compassion, Practice

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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• The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

  James Cash Penney

  People, Giving, Friendly

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• I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?

  Rick Stein

  Food, Chinese, Hello

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• Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

  Shane Black

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 21, 2005.

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• [Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits." "But my kits really like you," Daisy protested.

  Erin Hunter

  Past, Trying, Tails

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• I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beach, Ocean, Blessing

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.561, Library of America

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• You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fall, Taken, Thinking

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