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A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

Father, Child, Times

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

Love, Nature, God

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams

Life, High, Grace

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens

May, Fact, Often

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
Michelle Obama

Black, Shot, Gas

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
Tim Allen

Women, End, Sometimes

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg

Two, Rejection, Off

The post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison

Private, Post, Honour

Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.
Ellen DeGeneres

Gay, Trying, Thought

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.
Paul Ryan

Life, Happiness, Money

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Laurence Sterne

Happiness, Within, Soon

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Charles Schwab

Work, Find, Put

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
Edward Bach

Life, Best, Moment

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.
Paul Ryan

Life, Society, Control

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Dark, Her, High

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
Johnny Cash

Big, Dream, Started

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Business, Law, Service

I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.
Susan Orlean

Bad, Listen, Annoying

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
Eddie Vedder

Life, Eyes, Keep

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett

Men, Respect, May

The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust

Liberty, Less, Higher

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.
Glenn Beck

Time, Morning, Show

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
Adam Carolla

Same, Said, Around

The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.
Roy Rogers

Mean, Put, Week

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
Joni Mitchell

Music, Night, Down

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.
Ronnie Barker

Nothing, Police, Local

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.
Jon Bon Jovi

Long, Thought, Song

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.
Sylvester Stallone

Time, Yourself, Together

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
Larry Niven

Everyone, Space, Insane

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
James Lovelock

Sunshine, Sun, Big

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