#near

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#am #die #i #i am #may

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day. ↗

— Neil Innes

#i #i remember #nearly #one day #records

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#i #kind #mistress #nearly #old

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#believe #cannot #end #far #far away

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#history #hobbies #interests #language #maker

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two. ↗

— Maria Monk

#crossed #dipped #door #fingers #holy

I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best. ↗

— Bindi Irwin

#best #dad #everybody #good #him

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about. ↗

— Steve Israel

#borders #currently #immigrants #know #live

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american #back #front #great #great responsibility

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#dangerous #especially #except #fell #horse