Shed Quotes - Page 25

• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  Odette Annable

  Grandpa, Spy, Trying

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• If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

  Martin Freeman

  Scales, Plumber, Mansions

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

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• When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Live Life, Past, Light

  "Q&A: Garrett Hedlund 'On the Road,' on Illegal Drugs, Getting Naked and Twihards". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. December 18, 2012.

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• But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Winter, Oats, Apples

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• We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Self

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• Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

  Linda Barnes

  Latin, Ghetto, Insults You

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Cold Case”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

  John Mellencamp

  Religious, Sunday, Grandmother

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• I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

  Jessye Norman

  Spiritual, Art, Light

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• ... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Sleep, Voice, Ambitious

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• All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

  Umberto Eco

  Religious, War, Blood

  "The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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• I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

  Dermot Healy

  Home, Writing, People

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• Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Wall, Rain

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I created my foundation as a result of that and my website, and I try to shed some light on some very topical issues right now. The idea is to try to get people to become obviously more knowledgeable about the issue and try to get corporations and individuals to contribute to these nonprofit organizations.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Light, Organization, Ideas

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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• Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Joy, Soul

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• Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
  O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lying, Heart, Dust

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Epitaph On A Jacobite”

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• It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

  Bell Hooks

  Meaningful, Women, Home

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.61, Routledge

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• No tears are shed when an enemy dies.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Tears, Dies

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 376, 1856.

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• How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

  Anne Bronte

  Tears, Odd, Distress

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.310, Diversion Books

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• The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

  I. L. Peretz

  Pyramids, Blood, Together

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• The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood, and are still shedding blood, and there should be no contact between them and us. We will not agree to meet with them until our problem with the Zionist entity and those Westerners and Christians who support them, is solved.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Christian, Brother, Blood

  "Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi against Including Jews in Dialogue between Religions". MEMRI TV, May 2004.

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• In the Quran it is said that from the tears shed by this great angel [Michael] over the sins of the faithful, cherubim are formed.

  Malcolm Godwin

  Angel, Faithful, Tears

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• In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Stars, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.454, Modern Library

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• This shed does not contain me.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Doe

  Game from DVD version of Bewilderness,

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• The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Gun, Unity

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• As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

  Scarlett Johansson

  Eye, Different, Spotlight

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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