The overwhelming emotions and feelings that I experienced at that very moment, when most of the audience gave me a standing 17)ovation, I felt would never again be matched in my life-not even when I graduated with a masters degree in social work and not even when I became employed full time at the Texas Pain and Stress Center.
According to an unrelated news story, parents in a Beijing suburb are getting up at 5 am each day and standing in line for the shuttle buses.
By now we were standing in the long Holiday line in the Layaway Department, and I figure it was now or never.
We were standing at the top of a church tower.
" By now we were standing in the long Holiday line in the Layaway Department, and I figure it was now or never.
It was being out in the open and standing bare foot!
Standing for what's right when everything's wrong, and saying "I'm wrong" when something's not right.
I could remember standing in the heat of the afternoon, sweat pouring down my brow and the hot, burning sun againse my face.
Standing proud and straight in his flour-sack shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, "But I don't have the money right now.
For that one blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods.
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley.
Some people go through life standing at the excuse counter.
My parents were standing in the doorway to the den, where we had stored the books and my mother's beloved china.
If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
75 His mother looked at him standing there expecting payment.
One day in the fall of the same year, while standing in line at the supermarket, I heard someone calling my name.
Bulgarian Proverb Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
"Have you noticed," I ventured, "that the trees seem to be moving while we seem to be standing still?
There he was, standing exactly where I had left him, smiling proudly.
Here, you are standing in the center of France.