Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

Paul Engle's Popular Quotes

I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Ind…

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Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

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The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, …

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Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

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A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first…

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I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighb…

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You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

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Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

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The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

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