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"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul." »Kahlil Gibran
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"I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied-up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo." »Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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"A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed." »Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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"When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities." »Tom Robbins
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"The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still." »Longfellow
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"I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." »Abraham Lincoln
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"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." »Irish Proverb
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"Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow." »Lydia Maria Child
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"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition." »Indira Nehru Gandhi
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"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." »Indira Gandhi
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"Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think." »Robert Service
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"Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think." »Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
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"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day." »Polish Proverb
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"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." »Golda Meir
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"Even a stopped clock is right two times a day." »Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." »Jean-Paul Sartre
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"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." »Bonnie Prudden
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"Dont sit like a rock,work like a clock." »vani
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"Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are gone as fast as they can grow up-and we have only a short moment with each. When you see a grandfather take a baby in his arms, you see that the moment hasn't always been long enough." »Saint Clair Adams Sullivan
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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." »Pablo Picasso
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"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." »F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up." »William Hazlitt
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"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information." »W, Willard Wirtz
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"Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life." »John Rogers
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"People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking." »Steve Goodman
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"Death is much like an alarm clock
except there is never a snooze button
to give you just a moment more,
before you really have to wake." »Ronnie Rickner
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"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." »H. G. Wells
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