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  •    I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms139:14^16.

  • In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St  John1:1^3.

  • Todo se ha escrito, todo se ha dicho, todo se ha hecho, oyo   Dios que le dec|an y a u n no hab|a creado el mundo, todav|a no hab|a nada.Tambie  n eso ya me lo han dicho, repuso quiza   desde la vieja, hendida Nada.Ycomenzo  . Everything has been written, everything has been said, everything has been made: that's what God heard before creating the world, when there was nothing yet. I have also heard that one, he may have answered from the old, split Nothingness. And then he began.

    - Macedonio Ferna n dez
      Museo de la novela de la Eterna ('The Museum of Eternity's Novel'),'Pro  logo a la eternidad'.

  •    A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

    - Helen Frankenthaler
      Quoted in Ian Crofton (ed)  A Dictionary of  Art Quotations (1988).

  • This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

    -Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie
      'This Land isYour Land'.

  • So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

    - Robert Herrick
      'Corinna's Going a Maying'.

  • Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark, 22 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

  • Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

    - Immanuel Kant
      Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbu«  rgerlicher Absicht (Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose), prop.6.

  • 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,'said the child†I'spect Igrow'd. Don't think nobody never made me.'

    - Harriet (Elizabeth) ne  e Beecher Stowe
      UncleTom's Cabin, ch.20.The child isTopsy.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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