Quotes About Servants

Hey, little kiddie king.. You're having a parade with your servants?

Their expressions were like those caught by Renoir in the faces of The Daughters of Paul Durand-Reul, relaxed, proper, satisfied, slightly ingenue, the background filled with spring color. It was unreal, a garden party far removed from the Revolution that surged beyond the orchard walls. Here, aristocrats dined among white-gloved servants, as in a painting, while songbirds sang in the trees.

They would have thought me mad, even Kristabel. Flying carriages. People who live forever. Hundreds of inhabited worlds. Machine servants instead of genistars. Cities where Makkathran would be naught but a small district. A civilization where justice was available to all. Aliens. More stars in the sky than it is possible to count. No, such marvels of my fevered imagination were best kept inside my skull.

The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.

He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

So Abimelech brought sheep and cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him.

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelechís servants had seized,

Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.

He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Then Isaacís servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.

On that same day, Isaacís servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.

I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.í”

He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”

Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.

“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.

If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”

My lord asked his servants, ëDo you have a father or a brother?í

Then you told your servants, ëBring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.í

But you said to your servants, ëUnless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.í

When the news reached Pharaohís house that Josephís brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.

you are to say, ëYour servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.í Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”