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Letter "B" » blankets
«America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
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«It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.»
«Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.»
Author: Marion Howard
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
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«I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.»
«If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket»
Author: Matthew White
| About:
Love,
Promise
| Keywords:
blanket, blanketed, blankets, cold, cover, covered up, cover for, cover up, On the Cover, promise, warmer
«And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shake;Kiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,Till fast asleep I fall.»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
| Keywords:
blankets, chair, fast asleep, lap, pillow, Rousseau, slightest, softly, sound asleep, The Shadows, The Wall, tire, well known
«America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
blanket, blanketed, blankets, cloth, cloths, thread, woven
«I may wear ear-rings, and a pearl necklace around my neck; my bed may be adorned with red blankets, flowers and red powder; but without the Lord of the Universe, where can I search for peace?»
Author: Atharva Veda
| Keywords:
blankets
«Sometimes I fall asleep at night with my clothes on. I'm going to have all my clothes made out of blankets.»
«One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.»
Author: Turkish Proverb
| Keywords:
blanket, blanketed, blankets, burn, flea, get rid of, rid, rid of
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