I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Home is where a man was born, reared, went to school and, most particularly, where grandma is.

Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water ( symbol of the Word of God, see Ephesians 26 ) and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Jesus answered and said to him ( Nicodemus ) `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God ''.

`` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

to those who believe in his name: Who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, who could not lie, said, `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God '' ( St. John 3: 3 ).

Django, who was born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt in Belgium and who died in 1953 in France, was an extraordinary man.

His mother married Publius Julius Lupus ( a man of consular rank ) suffect consul in 98, and two daughters, Arria Lupula and Julia Fadilla, were born from that union.

We of the Church of England have been born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

According to Hippolytus of Rome ( Philosophumena, VII, xxiii ) Theodotus taught that Jesus was a man born of a virgin, according to the Council of Jerusalem, that he lived like other men, and was most pious ; but that at his baptism in the Jordan the " Christ " came down upon the man Jesus in the likeness of a dove.

Jesus immediately replies: " Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

" Also, " I say, man may be born again and so become an heir of salvation.

Confucius never stated whether man was born good or evil, noting that ' By nature men are similar ; by practice men are wide apart ' — implying that whether good or bad, Confucius must have perceived all men to be born with intrinsic similarities, but that man is conditioned and influenced by study and practise.

" Jesus, the only immaculate, was born of a virgin mother, and Christian Science explains that mystic saying of the Master as to his dual personality, or the spiritual and material Christ Jesus, called in Scripture the Son of God and the Son of man — explains it as referring to his eternal spiritual selfhood and his temporal manhood.

Archbishop Healy eulogises him thus: " A man more holy, more chaste, more self-denying, a man with loftier aims and purer heart than Columbanus was never born in the Island of Saints " ( Ireland's Ancient Schools, 378 ).

As Malcolm was born no later than 901, by the 940s he was no longer a young man, and may have been impatient.

One section states that if a man purchases a cow that is found to be pregnant, then he is the owner both of the cow and the calf that is born from it.

Eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man to be elected President since James Buchanan in 1856.

Stephen Dedalus, in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man envisages his future artist-self " a winged form flying above the waves [...] a hawk-like man flying sunward above the sea, a prophecy of the end he had been born to serve ”.

The old man beckoned with one finger and Clayton went forward to him.

`` Running around in the moonlight almost naked and slugging a man with a rock ''??

He dropped a man with the first bullet.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

The eyes always held Hague, eyes of a dead man, lidless as a lizard's, with the fixed intensity of a cobra.

I'm not the only man in town with a gun, or the only one without a permit ''.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

You're the kind of bastard who sneaks up on a man from behind and hits him with a club.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

I expected Brassnose -- as a man with a strain of Melanesian in his blood -- to speak to them.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

A few minutes later the insurance man, a road checker, drove up in the gray coupe with license plates on it from a far-away state.

The man said with a tone of impatience.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.

`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.

A wave of flame rippling through their cave had reached Nagamo, his friend, and with a shriek the man bolted through the entrance, then slowed to the jerky walk of a puppet, his uniform blazing.

The white girl with the penetrating green eyes sipped the lemonade handed to her by a handsome man of about 30, who had coppery skin and beetling eyebrows.

This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.

He saw a pint-sized man with a graying spade beard and an unusually large head.

The kid hit the bigger man with an audible thwump!!

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.