Quotes with air-borne

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  • Benjamin Whorf My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux My burden is light, said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Bill Flores My goal is to be the tough negotiator but... not to air differences through press releases.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Becki Newton My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ludwig Borne Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
    Ludwig Borne
    German journalist and critic (1786 - 1837)
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  • Adam Clarke Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christopher Marlowe O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • A. E. Housman Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
    And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
    And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
    Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
    Additional Poems (1937) No. 18, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Rod Mckeun Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...
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  • John F. Kennedy Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Sir William Temple Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Seneca Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Samuel Beckett Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bayard Taylor Primrose-eyes each morning ope In their cool, deep beds of grass; Violets make the air that pass Tell-tales of their fragrant slope.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Jean Genet Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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