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Letter "D" » districts
«There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy»
Author: Goldie Hawn
(Actress)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
attorney, attorneys, daisy, district, districts, district attorney, The District, Three Ages
«In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.»
«Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in»
Author: Marcelene Cox
| About:
Children,
Gifts,
Politicians
| Keywords:
aunt, aunts, await, Christmas present, district, districts, Fred, his uncle, precinct, presents, returns, Ruth, The District, uncle
«Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind»
«I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.»
Author: Sam Rayburn
(Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
congress, district, districts, gentlemen, qualified, qualifies, qualifying, The District, well-qualified
«[George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man, whether he comes from Washington State, or Los Angeles, or Texas, when he comes and walks these city streets and begins to feel that this is my city; I own a part of this Capital, and I envy for the time being those who are able to spend their time here. I quite admit that there are defects in the system of government by which Congress is bound to look after the government of the District of Columbia. It could not be otherwise under such a system, but I submit to the judgment of history that the result vindicates the foresight of the fathers.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
Angeles, Columbia, defects, district, districts, District of Columbia, Federal, for the time being, George Washington, system of government, The District, tingle, tingled, tingles, tingling, vindicate, vindicated
«SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. One of the most illustrious spookers of our time is Mr. William D. Howells, who introduces a well-credentialed reader to as respectable and mannerly a company of spooks as one could wish to meet. To the terror that invests the chairman of a district school board, the Howells ghost adds something of the mystery enveloping a farmer from another township.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adds, board, boarding school, board meeting, chairman, Company of, concerns, credentialed, district, districts, doings, envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, farmer, ghost, Howells, illustrious, introduces, invests, mannerly, phenomena, school board, The District, township
«Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
an American, attorney, attorneys, congressman, congressmen, district, districts, district attorney, jealous, liberties, promoted, The District, Washington
«We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
districts, guards, New York State, police state, security guards, suburbs, The District
«Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Art,
Work
| Keywords:
consumed, district, districts, fabrication, The District, wines
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