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"Provider" Quotes from Famous Books

... her two children took a little flat on the south side. Widowed, one might with equanimity admit stress of circumstance. It was only when one had a husband that it was disgraceful to show him to the world as a bad provider. ...

— Gigolo • Edna Ferber

... loving mother, the patient teacher, the tender nurse, the wise provider and care-taker, she can serve the state, and the state needs ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... Arch-Provider of Merriment to his companion, "this ground is known as Links; the game of 'Golf' is being played. These gentlemen are golfers. The sticks they carry are called clubs. That bearded old gentleman is the King of Jupiter, FOOZLER THE FIFTH. He is playing his morning ...

— Punch Among the Planets • Various

... was a liberal provider for his family, and his grandchildren and connections were constant objects of his bounty. Large sums were spent in charity. No church or benevolent institution appealed to him in vain. His house was open, and his hospitality was princely and proverbial. No one ...

— Robert Toombs - Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage • Pleasant A. Stovall

... which he had nothing to do. When the sun rises, you'd think that he was making all the light, instead of all the noise; when the farmer's wife throws the scraps in the henyard, he crows as if he was the provider for the whole farmyard and was asking a blessing on the food; when he meets another rooster, he crows; and when the other rooster licks him, he crows; and so he keeps it up straight through the day. He even wakes up during the night and crows a ...

— Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

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