Hovering Quotes
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The American empire is hovering between life and death.
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More Hovering Quotes
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
garrison keillor— Leaving Home? (1987), p. 20
We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.
u. g. krishnamurti— Ch. 4: You Invent Your Reality
:;: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply). Flutter, flutter.
larry wall— Usenet article <20031213005325.GE7605@wall.org> (2003)
With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.
Heinrich Heine— Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs, New Spring, No. 7.
A gilded halo hovering round decay.
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Giaour (1813), line 100.
It is hovering and it's not an aircraft.
— Who: Frederick Valentich
— Note: These were the last recorded words of Valentich, an Australian pilot, who disappeared after contacting air traffic control claiming to be pursued by a purported UFO.
In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.
camille paglia— p. 41 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")
