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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
‐‐ Eden Robinson

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.
‐‐ Michel Martelly

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.
‐‐ Alex Morrison

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.
‐‐ Ronald Knox

The hallmark of a good comedy is that it can make you laugh, but it can also take you to the point where you're in love with these characters, and you want to see them be happy, and you want to feel that emotion for them.
‐‐ Rich Moore

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
‐‐ Richie Benaud

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.
‐‐ Joni Eareckson Tada

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
‐‐ Kristin Hannah

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
‐‐ John W. Gardner

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.
‐‐ Jim Leach

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
‐‐ Sean O'Casey

The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
‐‐ Moshe Katsav

The hamburgers in America are the best in the world.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
‐‐ Mario Batali

The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.
‐‐ Stu Jackson

The hand has the richest articulation of space.
‐‐ Eduardo Chillida

The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

The hand is man's most valuable servant; its dexterity enables it to respond to his slightest bidding.
‐‐ Max Heindel

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
‐‐ Jacob Bronowski

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
‐‐ Jean Shepherd

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
‐‐ Dean Koontz

The hands of Yves Saint Laurent are something really important - two real characters on their own.
‐‐ Pierre Niney

The hands really show signs of age.
‐‐ Lela Rose

The handwriting is on the wall: if you want to have your franchises viable, then you can't have a situation where New York and Chicago and Los Angeles are doing very, very well, and some other teams are, but, I would say, a significant percentage of the teams in our league are struggling financially.
‐‐ Michael Heisley

The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
‐‐ Ralph Hodgson

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.
‐‐ Todd Phillips

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.
‐‐ Evan Goldberg

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
‐‐ Adam Weishaupt

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.
‐‐ Richard Dreyfuss

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
‐‐ Dan Chaon

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
‐‐ Richard Whately

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia.
‐‐ Jose Carreras

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
‐‐ David Duchovny

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.
‐‐ Andre Leon Talley

The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
‐‐ Andrew Stanton

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest 'weaknesses'; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell