#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

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. ↗

— Karl von Frisch

#exams #faculty #first #i #munich

I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ↗

— Liam Gallagher

#die #happens #i #live #now

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. ↗

— P. L. Travers

#book #half #his #learns #only

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn. ↗

— Randy Travis

#class #fact #first #first class #had

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#business #business world #came #enjoying #expecting