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Quotes About Rows

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.
~ Robert Fortune
When I walk to the pulpit on a Sunday and see my parishioners seated so properly in their rows, so neatly dressed, so assured and expectant, I am filled with a sense of panic. I have not done what I set out to do. In forty years, what have I given these people? Only a sense of complacency?
~ Douglas Preston
I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
For me, a circuit might involve a warm-up, then one minute on the treadmill or the indoor bike followed by a series of 20-second efforts with burpees, tuck jumps, press-ups and standing rows. I might repeat that 3-4 times.
~ Jos Buttler
Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars.
~ Richard Brautigan
I said, "What is this place?" "Old date farm. This building here is where they used to box up the shit and load it onto trucks." Rows
~ Robert Crais
I was free again—that is, rather, I was included again in the well-constructed, infinitely stretching Assyrian rows.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Books, Mr. Landor!" "I do read, yes." Not much of a library—a scant three rows in all—but mine. Poe's fingers glided along the bindings.
~ Louis Bayard
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
~ Roald Dahl
Walk into any Japanese fish market, and you'll see neat rows of sea urchin roe sold in little wooden trays.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Bullfight critics, ranked in rows, Crowd the enormous plaza full. But only one is there who knows, And he's the man that fights the bull.
~ Sam Sheridan
On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.
~ Paolo Gentiloni
In the flickering lamplight, they wandered down the rows of soldiers. No two soldiers had the same nose, the same eyes, or the same mouth. "Oh, man. No wonder so many people had to work on this tomb," said Jack.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
It is grand to walk down the rows dumping armloads of moldy grass glop onto the faces of your less favorite heads of state: a year in review, already starting to compost.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Inside were long rows of blue teleportation booths. Their shape and color always reminded me of Doctor Who's TARDIS.
~ Ernest Cline
Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
~ Gary Weiss
place in him where memory remained, like a patch of soil the tractor has missed, where a few dry stalks of last summer's crops still stand in their withered rows, the soil not turned over.
~ Joyce Maynard
Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.
~ Harry Bingham
driveway past the sheltering rows of tall Australian pines. Swiveling his head, he watched a distant humpback
~ Talmage Powell
Behind the upper and lower front row are four to five additional rows of replacement teeth, folded back into the gum line like a conveyor belt. Composed
~ Steve Alten
Devorah tended to fill empty spaces with books: end tables, the tops of dressers, the edges of desks, on occasion even a chair. She would arrange and rearrange the books with exacting care, lining up the spines so none jutted out: sentinel rows of books.
~ Chaim Potok
They were seemingly immersed in a sea of airborne traffic, consisting of rows and rows of speeding hovercars and even a few flying motorcycles called (as he later learned) hovercycles.
~ Gene Steinberg
We emerged onto the ruined street, where gaps showed in the rows of buildings like missing teeth
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
~ Henry Austin Dobson