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SARA SHERIDAN Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience...
SARA SHERIDAN A flock of small birds took off from the wall of the fort. They moved like a length of dark silk cau...
SARA SHERIDAN People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still ...
SARA SHERIDAN I love all the teenager stuff like 'Glee,' '90210,' 'Vampire Diaries,' '...
SARA SAMPAIO Some women give birth and then two weeks later look amazing. I don't think I'm going to be o...
SARA RUE I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.
SARA GILBERT The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Pe...
SARA SHERIDAN We are part of Life as a whole, yet a whole within ourselves. Like a multi-faceted diamond, birthed ...
SARA DANN We've been experiencing perpetual powder days.
SARA ALDRIDGE It's further evidence of how unnecessary the runway was, and is now. It just feels like, what a sad ...
SARA BARWINSKI There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably do...
SARA TEASDALE A good place to start initially would be school plays.
SARA GILBERT Allowing Medicare buy-in for caregivers of Medicare beneficiaries, or tax credits for caregivers' me...
SARA COLLINS I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in l...
SARA QUIN My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't h...
SARA SHERIDAN I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into th...
SARA GRUEN I'm alive when I talk to you, but I die a million times without you.
SARA STRAIN Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.
SARA RAASCH A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
SARA TEASDALE When whistleblowers come forward, we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they...
SARA HARRISON I sing 'I Have Confidence' from 'The Sound of Music' as Judy Garland, Celine Dion, B...
SARA CHASE Seeing 'Pretty Little Liars' fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and fl...
SARA SHEPARD I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss.
SARA RAMIREZ