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Letter "R" » rocks
«...my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being...»
«For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world»
«A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Author,
Pilot,
Writer)
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Keywords:
cathedral,
ceases,
contemplated,
contemplates,
idea,
In Rock,
pile,
piles,
pile up,
piling,
rock,
rocked,
rocks,
somebody,
The Cathedral,
The Pile
«Call on God, but row away from the rocks.»
«An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.»
Author: Jay Leno
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Comedian,
Host)
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Keywords:
bad guy,
Bad Guys,
Bad News,
Heart transplant,
Israeli,
Israelis,
operation,
Palestinian,
Palestinians,
rocks,
saved,
throwing,
transplant,
transplanted,
transplanting,
transplants
«And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:»
«And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: / And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
After the Fire,
brake,
brakes,
earthquake,
go forth,
mount,
mountain pass,
rent,
rocks,
small voice,
The Mount,
The Rocks
«For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
Among the,
get tough,
grow,
In Rock,
rocked,
rocks,
rooting,
roots,
root out,
take root,
tall,
tallest,
The Rocks,
tough,
Tree
«Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.»
Author: Jack Handy
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Writer)
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Keywords:
allowed,
all but,
a bit,
bit,
captive,
clothes hamper,
dirty,
evening clothes,
freely,
hamper,
hampered,
hampering,
hampers,
heads,
hurl,
hurling,
hurls,
Indians,
meals,
not late,
quite a,
rocks,
The Captive
«What are men to rocks and mountains?»