What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[Swede]

Within the practice and protocol of the Los Angeles Police Department a two-six call is the one that draws the most immediate response while striking the most fear behind the bulletproof vest.

Michael Connelly "The Closers"

 

[Glenda]

Concealed deep in the Old Testament Scripture, tucked away among the massive history books of the Old Covenant, is the tiny book of Ruth, one of the most engaging and endearing love stories in recorded history.

(The Story of Ruth - The Romance of Redemption - Bobby Conner)

 

[LeeLeeMarie]

Warmest Thoughts and Best Wishes.

--Holiday Card! haha

[Tank]

 

[jess anderson]

"There was death in the beginning as there would be death again at the end"

(The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans)

 

[LiberatedChick]

"Buddhism is much more widely known today than it was 30 years ago when we first became involved in it."

- Johnathan Landaw & Stephan Bodian, Buddism for Dummies

 

[HiredGoon]

"Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology tells the story of a remarkable culture that emigrants from England transported to New England in the seventeenth century, and it does so in the words of these Puritans themselves." - Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology

 

[VeronicasImage]

You can't always get what you want...
(Mick Jagger)

 

[chipmunk]

"What do you think: can the world's oldest continuous civilization have anything to say to the world's youngest?"

Relax, you're already home by Raymond Barnett, Ph.D.

 

[HisJavajunkie]

History is full of men who have claims that they came from God, or that they were gods, or that they bore messages from God-Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, Christ, Lao-tze, and thousands of others, right down to the person who founded a new religion this very day.

Life of Christ -- Fulton J. Sheen

 

[LadyIcthus]

Pure chance led my friend Hercule Poirot, formely chief of the Belgian force, to be connected with the Styles Case.

The Affair at the Victory Ball from The Complete Short Stories of Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie

 

[chick_for_Christ]

The spring of the year is always beautiful in the mountains of North Carolina, and I hated to think this would be my last to see the blooming of the dogwood trees and the greening of the slopes.

From: Land Sakes by Margaret A. Graham

 

[Ellesar]

"In essence, biology is a search for ideas and observations that unify the incredible diversity of life."

Biological Science 2nd ed. by Scott Freeman

 

[Stacey]

"To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

 

[starelda]

In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness cover the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.

The Holy Bible - NRSV

 

[Martin]

Ignoring titles, contents, etc...

"In this study we willl be looking at the Scriptures to see what the Bible has to say about itself and to emphasize its unigueness"

 

[starelda]

"Everyone has heard people quarrelling."

C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity

 

[KnowBeDo]

On Tuesday morning, January, 20, 1981, in a sun-filled ceremony on the west side of the Capitol, Chief Justice Warren E Berger swore in Ronald reagan as the fortieth President of the United States.

 

[kelco]

Serene was the word you could put to Brooklyn, New York.

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn~Betty Smith

 

[tqpix]

"IN THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

 

[InTheGarden]

"Epidemics have taken a great toll of lives in past generations."

On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross