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Quotes About Watching

You never know whose eyes God is watchin you through. It might not be your teacher, your preacher, or your Sunday school teacher. More likely it's gon' be that bum on the street.
~ Ron Hall, Denver Moore
Unbelievable! It was a total setup. They were all watching me carefully now, my mom, Muji, Jiko, who I sensed could see me through her closed eyelids, and my dad, who was still on the balcony, pretending to be all nonchalant and casual. I hate it when grown-ups watch you like that. Makes you feel like a malfunctioning cyborg. Not quite human.
~ Ruth Ozeki
You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.
~ Roger Milla
There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.
~ Van Morrison
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
a man, with his face half-covered by a black beard, and who, concealed behind the sentry-box, watched the scene with delight, uttered these words in a low tone: Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The young man with his hat slouched over his eyes, still leaning on the arm of the officer, and still wiping from time to time his brow with his handkerchief, was watching in a corner of the Buytenhof, in the shade of the overhanging weather-board of a closed shop, the doings of the infuriated mob, a spectacle which seemed to draw near its catastrophe.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I knelt by the fire to make certain there were no burning embers left. That was when I spied the tracks of a lion. There were only a few such beasts left in the desert, but one had come here, answering my call. He had been there all the while, watching over me, before he left me at last.
~ Alice Hoffman
Helene had an upstairs bedroom all to herself. I'm the favorite, she told Shelby, who marveled at her confidence, even back then. Shelby was an only child and she didn't feel like the favorite, not until her mother was dying. I never want to stop watching over you, Shelby's mother had told her, and then she wondered why it had taken her so long to know she was loved.
~ Alice Hoffman
who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes
~ Allen Ginsberg
I'd always kept an eye on the house. I don't mean doing repairs, for as the house didn't belong to me that was not my place, but rather I'd keep watch over its decline. The changes come slowly, like watching a woman age: another line, the spread of crow's feet, age spots rising slowly to the surface. One day the face you know is ravaged.
~ Aminatta Forna
A dark-skinned young woman sat on the roof of the aftcastle, one leg swinging as she watched the new slaves shuffle across.
~ Joe Abercrombie
This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.
~ Martin Bashir
...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.
~ John French Sloan
Someone is watching you. Or, someone is probably watching you. Or, you feel like someone's watching you. So you follow the rules whether someone's watching you or not.
~ E. Lockhart
That trip to India, the poverty. No God I can imagine would let that happen. Then I came home and started noticing i on he streets of New York. People sick and starving in one of the richest nations in the world. I just - I can't think that anyone's watching over those people. Which means no one is watching over me, either.
~ E. Lockhart
No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
~ Eddie Murray
On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me
~ Edmund Blunden
En la colina de enfrente y oculta tras un matorral, Laura ha seguido, sin poderlos descifrar, los movimientos del recién llegado.
~ Ednodio Quintero
Sister Anne, do you see anyone coming?
~ Anonymous
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
~ Anonymous
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
~ Alison Bechdel
I watched all the games in the pub with my family. We used to go to a place called The Sirloin in Chingford. It was quite a good atmosphere in there.
~ Harry Kane