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I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

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• At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Church
  • Decide

• My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Great
  • Children
  • Father

• When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Family
  • Food
  • Animal

• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Anger

• I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Try

• I was not the popular kid in school.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • School
  • Popular
  • Kid

• What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be insecure.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Better

• Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Up
  • Age
  • Getting

• The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Know
  • Influence

• I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • People
  • Problem
  • Myself

• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Christ
  • Really
  • Drinking

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • True
  • Space

• When I know the data that's being shared and I'm asked explicitly for my consent, I want some sites to understand my habits. It helps them suggest books for me to read or movies for my family to watch or friends for us to connect with.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Data

• Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German's six ways of saying 'the', like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner.

  

  Barry Webster
  • Existed
  • Sprung
  • Sexual Positions

• Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Chance

• Sometimes we get to be the sunshine on someone's cloudy day.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Day
  • To Be
  • Sunshine

• Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Service
  • Lover
  • Your

• I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

  

  Rumi
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  • Where