I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.
I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
I enjoyed my time in Houston but it was short-lived and it really didn't make a huge impression on my life.
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."
We're here for such a short period of time.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
I would only spend a week or two in the Philippines, most probably the week during my birthday because I am planning to give away Christmas gifts to the poor people of General Santos just like what I did last year.
