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  • Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."

    Rain   Thinking   Wind  
  • In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

  • It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

    Girl   Teenage   Couple  
    Richelle Mead (2017). “Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories”, p.68, Penguin UK
  • And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?

    Michael Buckley (2007). “The Sisters Grimm: The unusual suspects”
  • Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

    Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.36, Macmillan
  • I affirm that the crisis of the disc is a lure, it does not exist: the offer is intact, the increasing demand. But, each night, in the hangars of the music, the half of stock is stolen. Imagine the reaction of Renault vis-a-vis delinquents who would force the door daily to conceal the cars!

    Night   Doors   Car  
  • If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

  • Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.

    Trying   Looks   Like You  
  • If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

  • No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

    "The Glass Castle". Book by Jeannette Walls, 2010.
  • Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.

    "Asphyxiating Culture". Book by Jean Dubuffet, 1968.
  • I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

  • If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

    Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.69, Penguin
  • They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

    Kids   Cells   White  
    Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.22, Open Road Media
  • Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.

    Labels   Want   Kind  
  • The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

  • "Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

    Judging   Lawyer   Chosen  
  • Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents

    Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.338, Inkling Books
  • All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

    God   Atheism   Mythology  
    Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.58, New Directions Publishing
  • By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

    School   Able   Saws  
    Source: www.fargonebooks.com
  • I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.

    Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.45, Harlequin
  • It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

    Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.28, Penguin
  • The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression.

    Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.345, Inkling Books
  • Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

    Anger   Mind   Mistress  
  • Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

    2003 In a question and answer session at the National Film Theatre, London, 4 Nov.
  • But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

    Prayer   Promise   Church  
    "Why Revival Tarries".
  • Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?

    Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 10), 1956.
  • In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule, Are precious.

    Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.16, Macmillan
  • Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

    Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)
  • The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

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