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Quotes About Scattered

In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
~ John Strachan
Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
He was a victim of museum fatigue, Enoch told himself, overwhelmed by the many pieces of the unknown scattered all about him.
~ Clifford D. Simak
Our lives are scattered throughout with periods of unbelonging; in childhood, of course, and adolescence; but in adulthood too, when sudden loss (or gain) forces us to reassess things we believe immutable.
~ Clive Barker
The firemen said there were little fires everywhere," Lexie said. "Multiple points of origin.
~ Celeste Ng
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
~ Charles Dickens
Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought,
~ Charles Dickens
a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing
~ Charles Dickens
When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tacos originally migrated to California and Texas in the 1920s, and only made it into scattered Mexican cookbooks written by Americans in about the 1930s. They
~ Gustavo Arellano
His other few possessions lay about in the grotto where chance had arranged them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again.
~ Cormac McCarthy
but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram...
~ Lemony Snicket
Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
~ Barton Gellman
For me, meditation's hard because I feel like I have developed 'cultural attention-deficit disorder,' where, because we have so much stimulation, I feel like I have trouble focusing on things for very long. So when I try to meditate, my brain gets so scattered.
~ Shawn Achor
Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.
~ Pablo Neruda
Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.
~ Henry Rollins
Come gather the pieces all scattered and lost The lie in what's holy, the light in what's not The story's been written the letter's been sealed You gave me a lily but now it's a field
~ Leonard Cohen
Oh, hullo, Worthing,' he said in a cheery manner. 'How are things?' 'Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass.
~ Jasper Fforde
flickering lamps scattered here
~ Jean M. Auel
This collection of scattered thoughts and observations has little order or continuity; it was begun to give pleasure to a good mother who thinks for herself.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.
~ Francis Parkman
She had had a good life. It had its comic elements. Its scattered relics had not been and now can never all be retrieved; but some of them were blessed by the good intentions that created them.
~ Paul Scott