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My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I. -- Jacob Grimm
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey. -- John Milton
We call upon priesthood bearers to store sufficient so that you and your family can weather the vicissitudes of life. Please see to it that those entrusted to your watchcare receive these two pamphlets entitled All Is Safely Gathered In. Exhort them to prepare now for rainy days ahead. -- Keith B. McMullin
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. -- William R. Alger
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. -- Theodore Dreiser
I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. -- Charles Goodyear
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. -- Ansel Adams
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. -- Goldwin Smith
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. -- Lydia Davis
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. -- Bette Davis
I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed. -- Rhys Ifans
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. -- Samuel Smiles
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. -- George Eliot
You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me. -- Will Self
I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.' -- Matthew Perry
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river. -- Chief Joseph
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. -- John F. Kennedy
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. -- D. H. Lawrence
Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions. -- Ellen Hopkins
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win. -- Jane Smiley
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep. -- Geraldine Brooks
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size. -- Muhammad Yunus
My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. -- Jack Ma
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs. -- Jon Meacham
I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer. -- Dick Van Dyke
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner. -- Ann Hood
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday. -- Charles M. Blow
I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. -- Laini Taylor
Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die. -- Neil Young
We are all gathered to the same fold. -- Horace
What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away -- Heraclitus
Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits. -- Frank Perdue
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. -- George Herbert
Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot. -- Carl Jung
Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset. -- Jared Brock
What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people. -- Samuel Johnson
I am a stone which deliberately rolls to shed the gathered moss. -- Junaid e Mustafa
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft... -- Jim Morrison
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. -- Shelby Foote
We've all gathered together, and whatever goes down is what goes down. -- Greg Walloch
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. -- William Rounseville Alger
Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. -- Nicole Krauss
Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak. -- Celia Rees
This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets. -- Lydia Sigourney
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. -- Theodore Roethke
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. -- Bayard Taylor
At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. -- Timothy Radcliffe
I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma. -- Lyn Hejinian
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden. -- Matsuo Basho
Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her -- John Muir
Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie. -- Im Yoona
The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one. -- Mark Nepo
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered -- Chinua Achebe
God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'. -- Matt Chandler
Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more. -- Mary Stewart
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. -- Bryan Davis
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership. -- Peter Pace
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. -- Parker J. Palmer
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not -- Tryon Edwards
For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone. -- Wayne Muller
In all my years here, I don't think I've ever seen quite so many assholes gathered in one place! -- The Undertaker
The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day. -- John Pintard
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Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi. -- John Burnside
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. -- Jonathan Swift
I have gathered a posy of other menÂ?s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own. -- Michel de Montaigne
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart. -- Saadi
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded. -- Thomas Carlyle
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. -- Leo Tolstoy
For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head. -- Christopher Scotton
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! -- Phoebe Cary
Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide. -- Bradley Chicho
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. -- Angela Carter
Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The Senate gathered to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years. -- Ari Shapiro
On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found. -- George Thorogood
A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper. -- Frederick Philip Grove
Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms! -- Walt Whitman
As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world. -- Tammy Bruce
Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered. -- Jane Yolen
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal. -- Angelica Hopes
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind. -- Winston Churchill
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness. -- Vincent de Paul
Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends. -- David Letterman
We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight. -- George Linley
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect. -- Tom T. Hall
Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school. -- Andy Paula
I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away. -- James Taylor
I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me... -- Linda Boström Knausgård
We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake. -- Ansel Adams
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline. -- Bob Graham
This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years. -- Saxby Chambliss
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane? -- Charlotte Bronte
For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal. -- Charles Duhigg
To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom. -- Warren Farrell
From all kinds of flowers, Seek teachings everywhere, Like a deer that finds A quiet place to graze, Seek Seclusion to digest All you have gathered. . . -- Namkhai Norbu
All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord. -- Ignatius of Loyola
There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who didn't know him either. -- Jan Harlan
Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women. -- Honore Daumier
He easily gathered her in his arms; Gramma was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy - and hate and crazy don't weigh anything. -- Barry Lyga
Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure. -- Anthony de Jasay
Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016. -- Jay Leno
I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into a river. -- Derek Landy
He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me. -- Carolyn Meyer
Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart. -- Stefan Zweig
Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. -- George W. Bush
In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite. -- Victor Borge
He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. -- Leo Tolstoy
And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered. -- Edward Felten
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing. -- Joshua Reynolds
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. -- Joshua Reynolds
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos. -- Ursula Goodenough

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