1,029 Quotes About Lines

  • Author Heber J. Grant
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    When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every post looks as though it were not quite in line. The farther you get away from that straight line, the more crooked the posts will appear. It is the straight and narrow path of duty that will lead you and me back to the presence of God.

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  • Author Henry Louis Gates
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    The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

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  • Author Jane Goodall
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    There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

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  • Author Jeff Greenwald
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    That same preface also contains a single line that really does sum everything up: 'Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.'

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  • Author Jerry Garcia
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    We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

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  • Author Jerry Greenfield
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    We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

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  • Author Jim Gaffigan
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    Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?

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