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Letter "B" » blankets
«America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(
Baptist Minister,
Civil-Rights Leader,
Politician)
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About:
America and Americans
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Keywords:
blanket,
blanketed,
blankets,
cloth,
cloths,
colors,
One Piece,
patched,
patches,
patching,
pieces,
piece of cloth,
quilt,
quilted,
quilts,
size,
sizes,
texture,
textures,
The Patch,
thread,
unbroken,
woven
«It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.»
Author: Marilyn Ferguson
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Keywords:
afraid,
between,
blanket,
blanketed,
blankets,
dryer,
dryers,
hold,
hold on,
in-between,
in love,
old,
or so,
place,
so much,
trapeze,
trapezes,
ways
«Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.»
Author: Marion Howard
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
blanket,
blanketed,
blankets,
cheerful,
comfortable,
draw,
folks,
knees,
manage,
meander,
meandering,
meanders,
On Your Toes,
pass,
pull,
pull down,
rebel,
rebelling,
shiver,
shivering,
shivers,
shoulder,
shouldered,
shoulder in,
The Rebel,
the Rebels,
toes,
Too Short,
Yank,
yanked,
yanks
«I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.»
Author: Mary Stewart
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Keywords:
blanket,
blanketed,
blankets,
come round,
dark,
Drew,
merciful,
muffle,
muffling,
reached,
round,
rounder,
rounding,
round up,
sleep
«If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket»
Author: Matthew White
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About:
Love,
Promise
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Keywords:
blanket,
blanketed,
blankets,
cold,
cover,
covered up,
cover for,
cover up,
On the Cover,
promise,
warmer
«And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shake;Kiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,Till fast asleep I fall.»
Author: William Allingham
(
Man of letter,
Poet)
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Keywords:
blankets,
chair,
fast asleep,
lap,
pillow,
Rousseau,
slightest,
softly,
sound asleep,
The Shadows,
The Wall,
tire,
well known
«America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.»
«I may wear ear-rings, and a pearl necklace around my neck; my bed may be adorned with red blankets, flowers and red powder; but without the Lord of the Universe, where can I search for peace?»
«Sometimes I fall asleep at night with my clothes on. I'm going to have all my clothes made out of blankets.»
«One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.»