A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall… — Goose Gossage Copy Share Image
Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
“The creeks wend between beech trees, then end where freshets feed the meres (there, the speckled perch teem; there, the freckled newts… — Christian Bök Copy Share Image
You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image