#delinquent

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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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. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

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The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

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The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way. ↗

— Paul Mazursky

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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. ↗

— Philip Wylie

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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

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I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#exaggeration #i #teenager #without

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all. ↗

— Larry Elder

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