Quotes about belongings (16 Quotes)


    The stories were so sad, terrifying and tragic A Thai woman who had helped us escape had turned around to get her children, but they had been swept out to sea an American-Irish couple who had spent the past 15 years of their lives on their sailboat had watched their boat and all their belongings get smashed,

    We are more than happy to make the transition as easy as possible for these children and open our schools to them. They have already been through a traumatic experience with losing their homes and belongings. We not only want to meet their educational needs but also their physical needs.


    Prior to the Threadgill's show, Brandi Clark , an event co-organizer and initiative co-founder, visited the convention center to inquire whether any of the beleaguered evacuees wanted to take in the show for free. Hamre even arranged for a Cap Metro bus to transport them. No one ended up taking her up on the offer, however, because most of the hurricane survivors didn't want to leave the few belongings they had, she said. In addition to Milligan, Chaparral, and Neville, the show featured such acts as Beth Garner , Rajamani , the Pistol Love Family Band , David Murray , and Colin Gilmore . Neville, who said an old friend has been nagging him for years to move to town, told the Chronicle Tuesday that he plans to stay in Austin. I've always had an affinity for Austin since my days playing with the Meters at the Shoal Creek Saloon and with the Neville Brothers at Liberty Lunch, ... When this tragedy happened, there wasn't much guessing about where to move, since I'm trying to sustain a career in the music business.



    We all understand the concept of insuring tangible assets such as our home and our vehicle against loss. What too few people realize is that a nest egg can be 'insured.' The simple fact is that we need to begin 'insuring' our retirement assets in the same way we do our treasured belongings. The Hartford continues to take a lead role in developing income and longevity solutions to help our clients, along with the education to put everything in the proper context.

    Such is the stuff of waking nightmares, incipient madness, the sort of now-bewildered but soon-to-be-deranged thoughts that cause once well-balanced people to peek under their beds at night, suspect that their phones are tapped, and, in time, become certain that sinister forces are monitoring their every move. Maybe it's the government, maybe it's the Trilateral Commission, maybe it's the saucer people. You can't trust anyone because anyone and everyone may be one of Them or on of Their Agents. And pretty soon you begin writing long letters to the editor of Scientific American, or maybe you don't because the editors are probably part of the conspiracy too. And you think about lining your room with aluminum foil to keep the radio waves out, and at night you roam the streets spray-painting mystic symbols on the walls to repel strange forces, and all the while you gibber to yourself and what you say makes sense to you if to no one else, and in the end you put your belongings in a shopping bag, better to be mobile, and you look for a dark place you can hide during the daylight hours, because They are out there, and They are searching, and They want you in their crosshairs. . . . The headshrinkers call it paranoia, and when it gets bad they put you away. Because, after all, people who think everyone in the world wants to kill them can be dangerous.


    A retired teacher, and the daughter of a teacher who spent her career in the one- and two-room schools of a racially segregated Limestone County, Maggie attributes her ability to get along with people of all types, in part, to a lesson taught by the Rev. Judson King, her principal at Trinity High School. Rev. King was reared on a sharecropper's place - in Georgia, I think, ... He used to tell us how when his daddy died, the owner put his family off the place the same day his daddy was buried. The person who saw them going along the road with all their belongings and took them in was white. Rev. King said, 'Always remember, not all white people are bad not all black people are good.'

    SEVERALTY, n. Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.e., lands held individually, not in joint ownership. Certain tribes of Indians are believed now to be sufficiently civilized to have in severalty the lands that they have hitherto held as tribal organizations, and could not sell to the Whites for waxen beads and potato whiskey.Lo the poor Indian whose unsuited mind Saw death before, hell and the grave behind Whom thrifty settler ne'er besought to stay -- His small belongings their appointed prey Whom Dispossession, with alluring wile, Persuaded elsewhere every little while His fire unquenched and his undying worm By land in severalty (charming term) Are cooled and killed, respectively, at last, And he to his new holding anchored fast

    No DNA material from any young man tested was present on the body of this complaining woman. Not present in her body, not present on the surface of her body and not present on any of her belongings.

    There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.


    It is very clear that there is a great need for shelter and food on a large scale. Temperatures are dropping at night and children and families have lost all of their belongings. Medical supplies and support are needed as the injured begin to trickle out of the worst-hit areas. This trickle may soon turn into a flood.

    On the way back, they were approached by a vehicle, and two men hopped out of that vehicle. Both were armed with handguns and demanded money and their belongings.

    The people who have been in this devastation don't have anything. They don't have their homes anymore. They don't have any of their belongings. They basically got away with the clothes on their back and little else so I'm sure whatever assistance they can get they're very glad for.



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