Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, … I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
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Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
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The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.
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On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.
