S Quotes
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“Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.”
“Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.”
Source: Little women, and Good wives, by the author of 'An old-fashioned girl'.
“Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.”
“Six women have come forward that say Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them without their consent. This proves he would be a hands-on governor.”
“Six years after the first savings bank was established in 1810 in England by Henry Duncan, the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society became the first savings bank formed in the United States.”
“Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!”
“Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy - all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle”
“Six years passed before I saw Sias again and by then I had a name for Tarym and his kin. Wraeththu. Depending on who spoke to, this word was a curse or a benediction. I smiled, held my peace, content in the knowledge that I’d been touched by their magic and released in some profound way.”
Source: Para Kindred: Enigmas of Wraeththu
“Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty.
'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.'
They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'.
'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan "Safety First". But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me.”
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“Six years - two thousand, one hundred and ninety days together - and it took twelve for him to screw someone else”
Source: Six Summers Apart
“Six years-six little years-six drops of time.”
Source: Poems ... A new edition
“Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.”
“Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.”
“SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we are all connected to accomplish something good. It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a force for good, by bringing a social conscience to social networking.”
“Sixmd.com - Online store of goods from Vietnam The main advantage of our online store is that we are located in Vietnam and can personally track the quality of Vietnamese goods and negotiate the best prices; We monitor the quality of the goods sold and select trusted suppliers. And this means that you will get from us only the best high quality products at the best prices.”
“Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.”
“Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.”
“Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years”
Source: Sixteen Moons - Eine unsterbliche Liebe
“Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.”
“Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.”
“Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.”
“Sixteen years old is a crucial time in anybody's life, whether they realize it or not, and happy is the young person who has parents smart enough to plan character building activities and require respect and obedience.”
Source: Ten P's in a Pod: The Million-Mile Journal of a Home School Family
“Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.”
Source: The Outsiders
“Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.”
“Sixth grade, I remembermy best friend Wendy
whose parents were fighting, harshly, loudly,
and we sat on the curb outside so she wouldn't have to hear it,
and she cried, believing her world was falling apart.
I made up a kind-of game:
to everything she would say, I would respond
"Is that a fact or an opinion?"
and she had to figure it out and say it outloud--
we played it for hours,
ending up laughing
but she also began to separate
what was actually happening inside the house
from her feelings about it
and her fears.
I feel like I'm still playing "Fact or Opinion"
in my writing,
in the world--
with family, friends,
and, of course, myself.
Wish I could play it with our governmental representatives,
our institutions,
our courts.”
“Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.”
“Sixth grade
you didn't survive
just endured.”
Source: Brown: Poems
“Sixth sense, six pack, six degrees of separation / My evil third eye blinks with no hesitation”
“Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.”
“Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.”
“Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.”
“Sixty-five years ago [written 2009], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel weather, the heirs of Harold and the kinsmen of the Conqueror came to Normandy. They were supported by the remnants of their first, North American, empire, the two great nations that they had planted in the New World in the time of Good Queen Bess and James 6th and 1st: the Americans, who had rebelled in the name of the rights of Englishmen, and the Canadians, who had stood loyal in the name of the Crown. … The honours of these regiments are ancient and moving: Minden and Malplaquet, Mysore, Badajoz, Waterloo, Inkerman, Gallipoli, the Somme, Imjin. None shines more brightly than Normandy 1944. The paths of glory may lead but to the grave; yet all, even golden boys and girls, must come to dust. It is a better path to the grave than any of the others, not because glory is something to seek, but because, not once or twice in our long island story, the way of duty has been the path to glory; and duty is to be done. …Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.”
“Sixty-four has a way of forgetting what twenty-one was like. So we won't talk about blame.”
Source: The Stand
“Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are against bloodshed, regardless of whether a crime was committed against a Muslim or against a Christian or a Jew. But the question is: Why among these 60 million victims are only the Jews the center of attention?”
“Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.”
“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“Sixty minutes to an hour. Twenty-four hours to a day. These are mortal measurements, for mortal lives. But when you live forever, time is something far less constant. When you are happy, a decade rushes by. When you are sad, a minute crawls. When you are lonely and afraid, time seems to lose all meaning. Blink, and a year is gone. Blink, and it has only been a night. Only, it is not a life at all. It is a prison sentence.”
Source: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died...”
Source: The Mysterious Mr. Quin
“Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.”
“Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.”
“Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.”
“Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U.S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants.”
“Sixty seconds of laughter is way more pleasurable than sixty days of happiness alone.”
“Sixty, single, and discovering lesbian desire—her life was just the prologue to the lesbian ménage à trois she desperately needed.”
Source: The Sapphic Sip Society: An Age Gap, Interracial, Sapphic Ménage à Trois
“Sixty sluts, all of them dying from asphyxia after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippy cup.”
“Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.”
“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.”