Our task is to stand tall in God's love, secure in our place, sparkling in kindness, surrounded by his goodness, freely giving to all who come our way. You, me, and the Christmas tree. Picked, purchased, and pruned.
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been shocking because that's the expected norm, right? I felt I was a good match: here's an accomplished poet, and he's also gay and Latino.
Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily.
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.
The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives - and the battle of the blogs is on, full blast. No one bothers to ask whether there's any basis in fact for the assertion that this is going to be a "global-warming encyclical. "
Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
. . . with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.
I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.
My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.
That's a discovery process. That's the terrifying and wonderful part about getting picked up to series. You get to develop the stories and talk about the characters, and find out where the heart of the series is.
Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.
Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.
You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. (after not being picked starting goalie)