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H. L. Mencken Quotes

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

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Children School Parents Evil Prison

You can't put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can't get your quarterback hit.

You Back Know Him Up Quarterback

I've had no shellfish and no pork for quite some time.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Time Pork Some Quite Had

At some major events - your birth and death, for example - while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you.

Death People Attention You Important

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

People Look Want Take Controversial

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friendship Equality Finding Reward

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

Mary Harris Jones

Men Mountain Fight Me Look Labor

She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.

Fly Never She Same Been Since

When I was little, my mom was an actress, and she still is now, and she'd go on commercial auditions, and if they needed a mom and a son, she'd take me along, and that's how I got started.

Son Me Mom Go Now She

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

Live Magic Sometimes Capture Hard

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.

Day Government Spark Will Becoming

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

Good You Look Write Out Park

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

Brigitte Bardot

Women Relationship Kind Never Two

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