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Letter "K" » Kings and Queens
«Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.»
Author: Charles Sumner
(Abolitionist, Statesman)
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«The king and queen of games [hold] court.»
«Elvis may have been the king of rock'n'roll, but I am the queen.»
Author: Little Richard Penniman
(Pianist, Rock musician, Singer)
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«Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.»
Author: Martin Gardner
(Calligrapher, Mathematician, Scientist)
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«The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless»
Author: Maxwell Anderson
(Playwright)
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emptier, Kings and Queens, powerless, Queens, sillier
«And they always find in archeology ?a series of small walls.? Every time, a series of small walls. Everywhere you go. ?We?ve found a series of small walls, we?re very excited? I think this proves they had walls in olden days. They were very small, and? a series of small wall people.? And then someone comes along, very learned, with glasses, ?Of course, the king and queen entertained here? 1,500 courtiers, and there were soldiers, 20,000 soldiers in this room, and elephants dancing hopscotch over there? A mad fiddler in this room, playing the banjo, buttocks and aqueducts into a heater?? And you?re just watching, and going, ?You?re making this up, mate! You?re just pointing at a series of small walls, going, ?there, there? Tutankhamen playing banjo in there?? Don?t know if it?s true.?»
Author: Eddie Izzard
(Actor, Comedian)
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«The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year, everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.»
Author: Lily Tomlin
(Actress, Comedian)
| Keywords:
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«And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.»
Author: Bible
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«But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.»
Author: Bible
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«No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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