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Letter "A" » abroad
«I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?»
Author: Robert Redford
(Actor)
| About:
Defense,
Environment
| Keywords:
abroad, category, put in, resources
«I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.»
Author: Robert Graves
| Keywords:
abroad, attempts, bend, classics, grammar, grammars, honest woman, horror, Rules of, sordid, The Classics, the English, The Rules
«I walked abroad, / And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge / Like a red-faced farmer. / I did not stop to speak, but nodded, / And round about were the wistful stars / With white faces like town children.»
«It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.»
«I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Foreigners
| Keywords:
abroad, backs, English, foreigner, foreigners, turned
«I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
abroad, at home, dislike, disliking
«I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, chambering, Chambers, companion, companionable, for the most part, Let Me Alone, lonely, solitude, stay, working
«Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Admiration,
Mankind
| Keywords:
abroad, billowing, broad, circuits, compass, heights, mountain pass, rivers, River Went, The Mighty, tides
«I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, dully, entreat, entreating, entreats, idleness, shapeless, wear out, wonders
«I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.»
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