#amid

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa. ↗

— John Sununu

#bring #comes #contact #corn #ethanol

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#bid #blessings #commerce #descending #hand

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#friendship #grows #pond #rock #share

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme. ↗

— Bernard Katz

#organized #organized religion #pyramid #religion #scheme

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#government #hope #laying #may #outlast

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#confronted #contemporaries #desert #go #him

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#amid #been #conflicting #course #cruelty

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution. ↗

— George Murray

#around #aside #been #city #crap

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#approaches #been #between #building #complex