Gathered Quotations

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.

I would like to perform more in English. But there have to be many good things gathered for me to be willing to do a movie. I watch trailers of every new American movie and I'm, like, 'OK, I'm not missing anything!'

The show is called 'Todrick,' and the show follows my life and the friends that I've gathered over the past few years making YouTube videos. Every week, we're taking a brand new concept - a brand new original song, brand new hair, makeup, choreography, and making a video come to life on our shoestring budget.

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

The Holy Ghost will testify to our hearts, and the hearts of those gathered around with us, what He would have us do. And it is by keeping His commandments that we can have our hearts knit together as one.

Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

What have we lost? Well, we've lost a scientist who is really concerned about the quality of life for people who live in earthquake country. We have terabytes of information Tony gathered in the '80's and '90's (about earthquakes and land movement). That will be just part of Tony's legacy.

Years later, I learned to my astonishment that he never turned over the case to his staff, and it gathered dust in his personal files.

With three fires in a matter of hours, we knew the case had to be treated as a priority. Our patrol officers went into the complex and spoke with everyone they could. They gathered a lot of information.

There is a raucous energy about each piece. The viewer may find their way through the pieces easier if they are all gathered in one place and shown together.

When it went from (26) to nine, I wasn't very happy. I was thinking that the worst nightmare was going to be coming our way. We gathered ourselves very quickly.

We're here today just like we gathered 41 years ago in Selma. We are here preparing to go across another bridge, a bridge that they stopped us on the night Katrina hit. But we come today to tell them that nobody is going to stop us from going across any bridge in America.

We've reviewed all the information they gathered at the 110 percent power level and have not identified any anomalies or reasons to prevent them from going to the next higher power level.

Lourdes was a bonfire thousands of candles and burning cries and a week of rising suns over an esplanade where stretcher cases lay side by side, end to end, waiting for a priest to come with a monstrance that gathered sun to its gold and blazed in the sign of the cross above the stretchers.

So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

Some might take exception to the notion that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. But those of us gathered here today know that with American ingenuity we can achieve the reductions in the Clean Power Act without shutting out the lights,

Since at this place, those who have devotion have gathered and people of all nations have come, I cannot but tell you one fact.

Mountain men traveled in very large parties and trapped beavers in the Rocky Mountains, and every year they gathered in a rendezvous. That's where they would sell the hides to traders.

May the roof above us never fall in. And may the friends gathered below it never fall out.

Measuring literacy is a complicated task -- one challenge is that we are testing adults, and you don't find them gathered in classrooms.

More and more companies are discovering that defined-benefit plans are not well-suited to their business realities, their future and the nature of their work force management. We've had a lot of companies terminating for quite some time, and freezing activity has gathered steam as well.

I graduated with my ninth grade class (Langdale School) in the spring of 1941. Our graduation exercises were held in the Langdale Theater. After that, we gathered at the gym. It was pretty simple. It was a fun time. But it was a sorrowful time because we realized we would never be students at LaFayette Lanier School again.

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own

I didn't really have anything else to compare Tech to. I gathered all the information I could to make a smart decision.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

I don't know what will be in the new regulations package. We gathered information from the public last week from Central Valley anglers in Yuba City and will conduct another open session this week.

Barring something unforeseen, at this point, we're probably going to be pretty quiet from now until the end of the World Series. It's still about getting the right guy. We don't want to rush the process and make the wrong decision. We have gathered more names to add to the list if we want to expand the search. With each conversation, you learn more about the game and more about what we're looking for in our next manager.

further information gathered as part of your ongoing investigation.

I don't understand how people can rush to a solution before they finish the investigation, ... There's an awful lot of evidence that hasn't been gathered yet. People need to allow the process to go forward in an orderly manner and not assume that they know what the final outcome will be either way.

We took them items ranging all the way from refrigerators to sofas, bicycles, computers, washers and dryers to clothes. We've had an overwhelming response from the community. All of these items were gathered in only a week's time.

We are gathered here tonight not out of any bitterness. We believe this visit is important. Unless there is dialogue between the U.S. and China, the U.S. cannot help us.

It appears that the same amount of data would have to be gathered yearly. Data collection is more expensive than sending it in.

I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

I was coming in too fast, but then I kind of gathered myself and stopped, and then got some composure and buried the backhand.

I thought we came out on fire at first. Then we let them get back into the game with a lot of lapses defensively. We were hot with the three and then we missed a few and kept shooting them. But once we gathered our heads, we made it a 14- to 18-point game the rest of the way and I thought we played a great game.

I think we have as much experience in advising and discussing futures of players as anyone in the business. If there's some decisions that need to be made, I guarantee you all the appropriate information will be gathered and there won't be any stones left unturned if a youngster needs our assistance in any areas. But it becomes counterproductive when it becomes a draft watch.

I think they gathered together and played better (in the second half). We didn't play as well and they were able to slow him down.

I saw like a crowd gathered around and then like I could see like a white kid in the middle (be)cause he was kind of tall and I guess it was a whole bunch of Asian dudes who were getting ready to fight him. And maybe there were some other white kids, I'm not quite sure. But I just saw him get hit.

Pakistan have gathered momentum after their test and one-day successes against England. So have we, after our recent run of successes.

It is fairly predictable that the non-settling states would distort information gathered in the deposition process in their attempt to undermine the settlement reached by Microsoft, the Department of Justice and a bipartisan group of states,

Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) / And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

We have not received a copy of the order but it is understood that the high court has called for a report on various lapses that might be there in the case. Information is being gathered and we are examining reports of investigation.

What we have seen is a continuation of an economic downturn accompanied by a downturn in consumer confidence and employment that started and gathered speed long before Sept. 11,

We plan to bring the information we have gathered to Congress as well. We have been doing lots of research, gathering records of community receipts to show the inequities to rural school children in the current system.

Wasn't their mess. Was the loose mess that had already gathered the night before. Lemme tell you...they did clean.

The reaction of many conservatives today will be that the president has made possibly the most unqualified choice since Abe Fortas who had been the president's lawyer. The nomination of a nominee with no judicial record is a significant failure for the advisers that the White House gathered around it. However, the president deserves the benefit of a doubt, the nominee deserves the benefit of hearings, and every nominee deserves an up or down vote.

The crew of the ship gathered money and clothes to help the migrants. They were very humane.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than any stock of the former

We consider the public's input critical to our season-setting process. We held 11 local public meetings around the state and valuable information was gathered at those meetings. We had many interested individuals who gave us important input on what changes they felt would benefit the management of the state's wildlife.

We have gathered here today to express our solidarity, our sympathy with the victims and their families and show our support for the open society,

We kind of got fired up when Coach Curry got a tech. We gathered ourselves and said, let's go, let's make this a ball game. We did that. It's a shame. If we'd played like that for 40 minutes, what would have happened?

We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.

You have gathered here to experience that Love.

We analyzed information gathered from focus groups. From the feedback we received, the groups did not interpret the ads as vulgar.

We analyzed information gathered from focus groups, ... From the feedback we received, the groups did not interpret the ads as vulgar.

When we think we've gathered up enough information, we'll call a special meeting to discuss these issues with you.

We've just not gathered the points our consistency of performance has deserved but everyone did their jobs and this time we were rewarded.

But the intelligence that we gathered at the time indicated to us that this was in fact leadership, and we struck the leadership, as we will do next time we get that kind of intelligence,

The governor isn't listening to the people. Inside this building are people invited by the governor. Outside are people who gathered to have a real town meeting.

Those to whom the people said: Surely men have gathered against you, therefore fear them, but this increased their faith, and they said: Allah is sufficient for us and most excellent is the Protector.

This was the first time anybody had gathered together a critical assessment of him. I gathered together his stories. A lot of people saw that, and I think it had a snowballing effect,

We gathered ourselves really well in the third quarter and played really well.

We gathered great experience in the Champions League last season and you cannot beat experience in whatever you do,

With respect to the action that was taken, it was certainly a constructive step reflecting a careful attempt to respond to pressures that had gathered in the oil sector over time,

This year alone, Karen has used Kristi's Christmas to organize relief efforts for the tsunami and hurricane victims. She gathered up frequent-flyer miles for Katrina victims so they could come up here to get back on their feet.

We weren't mentally prepared to play basketball. It was as simple and as complicated as that. On a good point, the kids gathered themselves in the second half and came back and did a fairly good job.

The prisoners first connected five of the prison's 14 cells by smashing large holes through the walls that separated them. Then, they gathered in one of the cells and crawled through a tunnel that they apparently had been digging for weeks, if not months.

Those who have gathered Truth, speak Truth; they apply the Touch-stone of Truth.

We are a really young team. We may have only gotten two All-Americans, but I think that the experience that they gathered here will carry all of them to the next level.

Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do, and I just sat there and listened.

At the Web 2.0 Conference a year ago, we gathered to discuss the implications of the Web becoming a platform. This year, we're taking it further, focusing not just on declaring the platform, but showing where the innovation is happening and what we might expect in the coming year, ... Web 2.0 attendees will be immediately plugged into the ecosystem of the new Internet and allowed to make connections vital to their business strategy.

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi; / Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

There was a great field this weekend. I really gathered it all together today. I thought I performed well yesterday in the high jump, and then had a good pole vault and hurdles today.

There's no kitty CDC, so it's not a reportable disease and there isn't really any place that information is gathered on disease incidence,

The whole of the local rugby community has gathered around to support Martin.

It was very coordinated, and again, the residents during that time reentered the building, gathered their belongings, and then departed.

It was a little more raw than they had been used to hearing. From our discussion, I gathered there was a feeling the players had become a little complacent. He brought back to them they've got to play hard. He brought a lot of competitiveness.

The tents were filled with uniformed war mannequins. The children and the soldiers took helicopter rides over Columbus. Various war organizations gathered an shared their stories about the war.

Ron Gray designed it and gathered all the information for it. The entire process, from design to finished product, took about two months. We selected John T. -- unbeknownst to him -- back in May. That was when we made the decision to dedicate the knife to him.

Ron Gray designed it and gathered all the information for it, ... The entire process, from design to finished product, took about two months. We selected John T. -- unbeknownst to him -- back in May. That was when we made the decision to dedicate the knife to him.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind

People who gathered here share different opinions, but when it comes to basic values such as culture, health, economic revival, the support of all forms of property, they unite their effort.

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

Once we did that we gathered whatever transcript that we needed to determine their status and if they were eligible for admission. Financial aid has been working with all these students, too. That's pretty much all they had to do.

And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

A related issue is the privacy of information gathered from sensor networks and how to protect the privacy rights and expectations of citizens. For example, if sensor webs have cameras attached to them, the usage of the pictures taken in public spaces is subject to a number of legal and privacy considerations that need to be built into the technology.

A preponderance of evidence, from the best observational studies the medical world has to offer, gathered over 25 years, has led to the conclusion that public health action is needed. Primary prevention of these cancers has largely been neglected, but we now have proof that the incidence of colon, breast, and ovarian cancer can be reduced dramatically by increasing the public's intake of vitamin D.

And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.

This is a sign of progress. Last Sunday, I couldn't find any church services. This Sunday, people have gathered together to worship.