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“But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.”

Country Law Certain Five Europe Towns Sells Fruit Lawyer Miles Bars Bread Instance Odd Borders Islands Bakers Where You Live Odd Things

Author:Daniel Handler

“To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.”

People Knows Children Country Seems Towns Sticks Cows Cattle

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.”

Men Country Political Social Views Universal Towns Fellows Deeds Endeavor Approval Good Deeds Fellow Man Banner Propensity Holland Greatest Fear God And Country

Book:The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

Source: The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

“It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33”

Firsts Children Country Sometimes Happens Joy Interest Born Alive Brother Towns London Tales My Brother Biographies Potters Lanes Descent North Country

Author:Beatrix Potter

“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.”

Long Country Lying Towns Winter Stale Sullen Shabby Winter Season Winter Time Winter Months Winter Weather

Author:Willa Cather

“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.”

Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

“Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.”

“It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.”

Source: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.”

Long Country Sky Towns Praise Rome

Author:Horace

“A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Country Shows Mother Boys Saws Fronts Son Dad Sitting Towns Motherhood Awful Quarters Tickets

Author:Art Linkletter

“Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.”

May Country Science Hours Air Rocks Students Materials Offers Summer Spring Towns Rounds Observation Dust Ease Delightful Hammers Joyous Geology

Author:Archibald Geikie

“They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.”

Country Left Saws Fields Towns Uplifting Woe Foe Memorial Injured Shields Insulting Memorial Day Spears Memorial Day Poems Memorial Day Remembrance

Book:The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)

Source: The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)

“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.”

“In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact should compel everyone to face a basic moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious choice and then deliberate policy that humanity will survive.”

Should Country Whole Facts Past Faces Humanity Choices Inspiring Moral Policy Planets Conscious Towns Threat Consideration Regions Village Deliberate

Book:The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood

Source: The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood

“It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.”

“When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!”

Thinking Life Has Beens Country Solitude Towns Slavery Green Command This Life Solitary Captains Coast Entrances Weariness Desolation Guinea Heaviness

Author:Herman Melville

“We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'”

People Thinking Want Looks Country Lasts Stars Towns Lifestyle Birthday Admiration Movie Star Cables Glamour Vcr

Author:Christina Hendricks

“Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.”

Ifs World Country Helping Happens Given Causes Four Streets Planets Huge Hundred Towns Impact Incredibles You Choose Our Planet

Author:Tom Hanks

“I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.”

“Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.”

Trying Real Country Cities Poverty Style Taught Waste Towns Wasting Time Rhyme Small Town Straightforward Metaphorical

Author:Tupac Shakur

“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”

Should Country States Government United United States Should Have Theater Towns Civilized Federal Government County

Author:Tony Randall

“Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to be in the streets, at town hall meetings and on the phones, demanding justice for the 11 million aspiring Americans in our country.”

Needs Country House Justice Millions Streets Towns Bills Meetings Phones Our Country Reform Halls Speakers Citizenship Pathways Urgency

Author:Eliseo Medina

“If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”

Ifs Two Country Light Night Church Sea Land Ready Arms Opposites Towns Folks Spread British March Village Shore Farms Towers Signals Alarms Arches Lanterns

Author:Paul Revere

“The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.”

Source: A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works

“God made the country, and man made the town.”

Men Made Country God Nations Cities Towns Country Life God And Country Spice Of Life Variety Is The Spice Of Life

Author:William Cowper

“The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!”

Thinking Knows Men Heart Country Light Seems Change Poverty Rich Fate Gay Lows Towns Slave Smoke Fifty Cents Estates Lamps Rich Man Cigar Livelihood Long Day

Book:TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS

Source: TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS

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