Albert Goldbarth Quotes

How many hands were shook and names were signed and pipes were passed congenially in a circle, before the first of the used-car dealerships rose up on the ground where the gods had walked?

Albert Goldbarth

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• Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • More
  • Ground
  • Southern

• I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • First
  • Names
  • Vegas

• When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Names

• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Gods
  • Dust

• If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Up
  • God
  • Innocent

• I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’...

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • God
  • Marriage
  • Gods

• They need a new community on higher ground.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Community
  • Ground
  • Higher

• In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Important
  • History

• Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • State
  • Ground
  • Tennessee

• French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

  

  An Na
  • School
  • American
  • English

• If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • People
  • Character
  • History

• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • God
  • Words

• "Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Names
  • Italian
  • Bears

• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Friend
  • Dog
  • Names

• My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • God
  • Children
  • Humanity

• They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, shall be healed, delivered and set free. Be set free, in the name of Jesus Christ!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Free
  • Jesus
  • Waiting

• Viewers all over the world, my prayer partners, whatever situation you are in, be delivered in the mighty name of Jesus Christ! Those who wait upon the LORD shall be delivered!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

  

  Homer
  • Humans
  • Fate
  • Gods

• Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • Light
  • Eye
  • Loved

• Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Learned

• The feathers have been retired to the London Hard Rock Cafe. I don't obsess about it as much. Also, it's strange - the better physical shape I get in, the less I care about what suit I'm covering myself up in. I'm not really out to flaunt it, but I'm just more comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Retired
  • Feathers
  • London Hard Rock Cafe

• How many hands were shook and names were signed and pipes were passed congenially in a circle, before the first of the used-car dealerships rose up on the ground where the gods had walked?

  

  Albert Goldbarth
  • Names
  • Gods
  • Ground