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father paris skulls
Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to. Richard Leakey
father sick suffering
I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering. T. D. Jakes
father reading eyebrows
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading. Harper Lee
father emotional broken
For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile. Iyanla Vanzant
father years waiting
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death. Rebecca West
father writing exercise
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film. Russell Baker
father accountants
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. Umberto Eco
father son difficult-relationship
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons. Salman Rushdie
father would-be roles
You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited. Sam Brownback
fall self fall-into-place
When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place. Billy Blanks
fall shoes half
I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over. Bobby Darin
fall thinking way
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way. Alexander McCall Smith
fall persons syllables
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. Don DeLillo
fall wish earth
I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now. Amber Valletta
fall reality literature
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. Chuck Palahniuk
fall hey destruction
Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
fall ocean soul
O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! Christopher Marlowe
fall might roof
The roof might fall in; anything could happen. Dashiell Hammett
light levis life-is
You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. Charles Bukowski
light shadow fading
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall. Daniel Woodrell
light giving shining
The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself. Anne Lamott
light people silence
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence T. S. Eliot
light speech steps
Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me. Simone Elkeles
light long half
It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light, Roland Gift
light killers
Death to the killers, bringing light to life. Stephen Spender
light silence blossoming
Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light. Sri Chinmoy
light soul path
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. Sri Aurobindo