#after

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#america #army #been #big #chunk

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#birth #death #did #guests #may

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother. ↗

— Gail Devers

#after #always #away #games #i

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#chemistry #enthusiasm #expectations #famous #federal

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#also #bring #dropped #forth #grow

Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students. ↗

— Milos Forman

#amount #another #communist #dwindled #every

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#day #grandma #hard #hard day #her

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#am #dress #get #go #going

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#after #been #contact #continue #distance

Tell them stories. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#harpies #lyra #afterlife