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Sayings – Sayings Timeline on Google

Posted by azhttp on June 25, 2009

Sayings

Time Line on Google for the Word Sayings

Google has a timeline feature which lets you browse and search through time for the history of the use of words and phrases.  Sample Timeline results for the word Sayings include:

50 AD – And somewhere about the year AD 50 a collection of the sayings of. 3 Sec note at end of chapter. Jesus was made to serve as a guide to Christian behaviour for those who had been converted by the Gospel preaching.4 …
From Introducing the New Testament

140 AD – Written between 50–140 CE, the 114 secret sayings of Jesus were likely written by Didymos Judas Thomas. The opening and closing passages included in the program were excerpted from a translation by Thomas O. Lambdin:. These are the secret sayings which the …Written between 50–140 CE, the 114 secret sayings of Jesus were likely written by Didymos Judas Thomas. The opening and closing passages included in the program were excerpted from a translation by Thomas O. Lambdin:. These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down. And he said, “Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death.”

1477 On 18 November 1477, was finished the printing of the and Sayings of the Philosophers, the first dated book issued in England.

The timeline feature can be used for any word or phrase but may not yield any results or may yield obscure results, depending on what you search for.

Sayings Timeline on Google

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Sayings – Victor Hugo

Posted by quotes on June 9, 2009

Man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles.
Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are
battlefields which have their heroes – obscure heroes who
are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

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Mother’s Day Sayings

Posted by quotes on May 8, 2009

Mother’s Day Sayings

A mothers duty:

Give your children roots,

Then give them wings.

Mother’s Day Sayings

My Mother…..

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished
cleaning.”

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of
next week!”

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
” Because I said so, that’s why.”

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going
to the store with me.”

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

7. My mother taught me IRONY.
“Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
“Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
“You’ll sit there until all those peas are gone.”

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
“This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
“If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
“I brought you into this world and I can take you out.”

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION.
“Stop acting like your father!”

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who
don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
“Just wait until we get home.”

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
“You are going to get it when you get home!”

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that
way.”

19. My mother taught me ESP.
“Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you are cold?”

20. My mother taught me HUMOUR.
“When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come running to me.”

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
“You’re just like your father.”

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
“Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?”

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
“When you get to be my age, you’ll understand”

And my favourite…..

25.My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
“One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!”

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Mother’s Day Sayings

Posted by quotes on May 6, 2009

Mother’s Day Quotes

On Mother’s Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You’re my mother, I would have no other!
– Forest Houtenschil

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
– Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
– Peter De Vries

All I am or can be I owe to my angel Mother.
– Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
– Jewish Proverb

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
– Lin Yutang, Chinese writer

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.
– Mildred B. Vermont

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
– Honore de Balzac, author

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
– Ambrose Bierce

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
– Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
– Nancy Thayer, author

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
– Unknown

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author

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