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Letter "R" » rocks
«The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread. [on the children of Little Rock]»
«The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
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«The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.»
«Power - Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.»
«The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.»
«There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: / The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; / The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; / The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; / The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.»
Author: Bible
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«The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.»
«The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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«Storied of old in high immortal verse / Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles, / And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell.»
«She is mine own,And I as rich in having such a jewelAs twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.»
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