Sentences with phrase «old tale tells»

An old tale tells of a man who seeks out the wise elder in the village, hoping for guidance on how to solve the problem that his house is too small.

It's an old tale told in a new way.

Is the green Martian folklore just an old tale told around the campfire to...

Unrivalled in his sense of duty and nerve, and as the old tales tell us, was the only God brave enough to dare to approach and bind the Wolf of Chaos.

Not exact matches

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

How do you explain that every tale of morality in the bible was told LONG before that book or the old testament was written?

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

Then the psychedelic path will lead over the bridge of cybernation; and with Herbert Marcuse as guru emeritus, Norman O. Brown as classicist in residence, and William F. Buckley, Jr., as anti-utopian court jester, we will establish the new - consciousness Camelot, telling the little ones tales of old Greenwich Village, the Haight, Millbrook, the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, of all the lotus - eating cadres of the leisure class....

We don't need 2000 year old tales of burning bushes to tell us that murder is wrong.

Very old are we men; Our dreams are tales Told in dim Eden By Eve's nightingales; We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies...

The one time my former wife I and did get into a disagreement about was when I told her I had no consideration toward telling out kids about Santa Claus as being nothing more than a old, worn out tale.

I recall, however, a true tale about an old and impoverished woman living in a mean flat in a slum, who told a visitor that she spent most of her day in giving thanks to God.

The answer, I think, is where we have always found new tales: in the older ones we have already been telling.

The tell - tale sign of a good sauce for me is when Mr. FFF has to wipe my face down like I'm 5 years old.

The Old Town Theater also presents excellent holiday performances like Tchaikovsky's beautiful, beloved ballet The Nutcracker; and A Christmas Carol: The Musical telling the uplifting tale of Scrooge's transformation and goodwill.

Whether you have a newborn or a sixteen - year - old — the Telling Tales literacy festival has something for every age.

I know science tells a different story, but with my babies the old wives» tale is true.

I was even told of an old wives» tale where women were advised to scrub the kitchen floor on their hands and knees!

It's a pleasure to tell you the tales of our family homesteading adventures here from our old farmhouse in Western Maine; to tell you about the things we make; and to share in what inspires my days.

Whenever you do tell everyone, brace yourself because the suggestions and old wives»... MORE tales are coming your way.

The story line itself, which sounds like a stream of consciousness tale told by a 3 - year - old, is about some businessmen who get an electric jolt from a telephone they have invented and then are saved by a team of doctors.

There are certain signs which can tell you the gender of your baby according to old wives tales.

Once you tell people that you're pregnant, you'll probably start hearing a lot of old wives» tales.

It can be hard to tell what's really a safety concern and what's an old wives» tale when you're pregnant and so many well intended people will hurry to dispense even more confusing information that could just be a myth and not information at all.

Most soberingly, Cade Russo - Young tells the tale of when she was eleven and her nine - year - old sister's known donor (different from her own) sued for paternity and shared custody of the sister.

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While fear gripped the entire valley, Malala Yousafzai, an eleven years old girl from Swat's Mingora town, began telling the world her innocent tales of surviving the Taliban's ban on education.

«This case is the age - old tale of the abuse of political power to satisfy personal greed,» prosecutor Tatiana Martins told jurors in Manhattan federal court.

Lawyers for former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam today argued that the federal corruption charges against the pair — which allege that the elder Mr. Skelos obtained posh jobs for the younger from companies with business before the state — really tell a heartwarming tale of a «caring and concerned» father and his «rude,» «volatile» and «immature and emotional» 33 - year - old boy.

5 Emailing fellow MPs about one's plot could have been a good wheeze, avoiding the need for old - fashioned, tell - tale huddling in corners.

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It's important to note, though, that although older songs were frequently in a major key, this didn't necessarily mean the lyrics were cheerful (e.g., The Fifth Dimension's 1969 «Wedding Bell Blues» tells the tale of a woman longing for her wedding day, despite being in major key).

There's no telling what kinds of fishermen's tales they told, but the early modern humans who lived on tiny Okinawa Island between mainland Japan and Taiwan nearly 30,000 years ago are the world's oldest known anglers.

«Tell - tale toes point to oldest - known fossil bird tracks from Australia.»

Researchers have discovered tell - tale signs of Alzheimer's disease in 20 elderly chimpanzee brains, rekindling a decades - old debate over whether humans are the only species that develop the debilitating condition.

And in 2007, Taku, a 14 - yar - old male orca, died at SeaWorld San Antonio; unknown to his trainers, he'd been infected with West Nile Virus, the disease's tell - tale lesions spotted during a necropsy of his brain tissue.

Now, the geologic record revealed in some of Earth's oldest rocks is telling a surprising tale of collapse of that greenhouse — and its subsequent regeneration.

It's sort of an old wives» tale that you'll gain 30 or 40 pounds as you continue through middle age — it can easily happen, but it's very easy to offset the change in metabolic rate,» she tells WebMD.

Telling people that adding cumin to beans and lentils will make these legumes less gassy is an unfounded old wive's tale which you claim as truth (with little knowledge, I dare say).

Tell - tale signs of getting older: wanting to be in bed by 10:30 at the latest and wanting to wear more comfortable shoes.

Until Lions tell their tale, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter» Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky, And the Lion that shall keep it may prosper, but the Lion that shall br..

Dating agencies love to tell stories about Russian ladies preferring much older husbands, and that it won't affect your marriage; but that's exactly what these tales are - stories.

Marriage services love to tell tales about Russian girls preferring much older men, and that it won't influence your future marriage; but that's exactly what these fables are — stories.

Aside from the information specific to characteristics older single women may present, some good old fashioned tell - tale signs are universal between all older single women, regardless of age boundaries.

Regardless of why this occurs, there are numerous tell - tale signs to know if older single women are flirting with you.

She told me a handful of tales as old as time about her dating horror stories.

The film, out Friday, tells the real - life tale of how 19 - year - old high - school dropout