Top 20 Quotes About Barges

#1. All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

Ronnie Wood

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#2. When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.

Mark Strand

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#3. All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.

Jo Ann Emerson

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#4. The birds disturbed from the network of waterways beneath the barges wheeled in the sky, calling plaintively.

Iain M. Banks

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#5. Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

Terry Southern

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#6. Glimpses through the clouds of numerous and enormous Second Free Zone residential arks and barges lumbering through their selective tracks like a slow-motion game of hide and seek played by listless, blunt whales.

Kieran Shea

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#7. Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused, but there were times when he would enjoy loading all the rubbernecks onto barges and towing them out to sea to be served, with ceremony, to sharks.

Ellery Queen

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#8. We build model ships in bottles, whispering life into the toothpicks and wire; we make plans and blueprints for the one we hope is coming. And come they do. Fleets of vessels. Battleships and barges. They arrive on the horizon, flags to the sky.

Sarah Kay

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#9. The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

Cyril Connolly

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#10. A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the ocean.

Frederick Lenz

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#11. My own life would make a pretty dull story, I think, and I envy him as I drive to work on a cold Minnesota morning across the Mississippi River with its coal barges still struggling upstream like so many of us nowadays.

Garrison Keillor

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#12. It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.

Gretta Mulrooney

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#13. Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.

Tom Robbins

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#14. As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

Clint Walker

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#15. There's pressure to deliver as good of a movie with a little bit more of a budget, and that to me ... to me the hardest thing always is, I just want to deliver a good movie no matter what the budget is and no matter where we shoot it or any of those things.

Neal H. Moritz

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#16. A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

Marya Mannes

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#17. I'm a worrier by nature. My husband says that if I'm not worried about something, I'm worried about what I've forgotten to be worried about.

Dana Perino

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#18. The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men.

Nicola Sturgeon

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#19. In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes.23 Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.

Yuval Noah Harari

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#20. I'm what I need to be at any moment to stay above the ground but below the radar. The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is 'I'm full of shit.

John Green

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