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The Patch
«A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.»
«America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
blanket, blanketed, blankets, cloth, cloths, colors, One Piece, patched, patches, patching, pieces, piece of cloth, quilt, quilted, quilts, size, sizes, texture, textures, The Patch, thread, unbroken, woven
«Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.»
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
| Keywords:
ball, faithfully, golf, golf ball, go into, infallible, patch, patched, patching, rough, The Knowledge, The Patch
«Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks»
«I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.»
«A wandering minstrel I - / A thing of shreds and patches.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
| Keywords:
minstrel, minstrels, patched, patches, patching, shred, shredded, shreds, The Minstrel, The Patch, wandering, wanderings
«I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree-presences - it is almost like having another being»
«Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.»