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nobody Quotes

19 of the best book quotes from nobody
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″When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.″
nobody
Randy Pausch
authors
life
give up
screwing up
anything
given up on you
concepts
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“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it.”
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“The little child that lies hidden in us all reached out- as in the dark- for a hand to hold; and there was none.”
Jock of the Bushveld
book
Narrator (Jock of the Bushveld)
the Boy (Jock of the Bushveld)
characters
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“I am nobody. I have no face ... All dressed in brown serge, has robbed me of my identity.”
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“Nobody wanted Morris’s bear. ‘Come,’ said Morris’s mother, ‘let’s make a hat for your bear.’ ”
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″‘I’m sure it’s a cat. Go and give it some milk.’ ‘There’s nobody there,’ said John Brown.”
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“But nobody wanted any caps that morning. Nobody wanted even a red cap. He began to feel very hungry, but he had no money for lunch.”
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“There’s no one to kiss me. There’s no one to care.”
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“They all began the same way: Dear Nobody. I sat there feeling bleak, with a growing kind of grief in me. Once she and I were the most important people in our world. Is this what I’d become to her? Nobody?”
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“But his face you could not see, on account of his beaver hat. For his hat was a hundred and two feet wide, with ribbons and bibbons on every side, and bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace, so that nobody could see the face of the Quangle Wangle Quee.”
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“But as nobody claims the dog, they keep it and decide to call it Snap.”
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“You are a nobody! An It!”
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“Cowboy Ned’s birthday is tomorrow, and he’s sad because nobody is around to celebrate. To cheer him up, his good friend Andy the horse journeys into the desert to find some birthday cake.”
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″...the strange thing was that everything was neat. She looked everywhere, but not a soul was to be seen. Not a leaf stirred in the little amphitheater, nor was there any trace of a hut to live in. There was no shed to hold a lawn mower, nor any mower standing on the lawn. Yet somebody had mowed the lawn.”
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“She said that the more puffed up Pauline became, the greater would be the flatness after the matinées were over, and that then she would learn that most important lesson for an actress—that today’s success is easily nobody at all tomorrow”
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“I’m my own dog. Nobody owns me. I own myself.”
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“Of course, many friends and relations might just as well not be there for all the good they do anybody. But most people have a few nice ones. Peter and Santa had nobody.”
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“Nobody owes nobody nothin’. You owe yourself”
nobody
author
Rocky Balboa
character
yourselves
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“And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: ‘There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.‘”

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