The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The summer day is closed - the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
"Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while mine is sweaty with fear. We've never held hands before.… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood,… — David Moles Copy Share Image
I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
But if you ever bring her back damaged again--and I don't care whose fault it is; I don't care if she merely… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
If Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky,… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Beckendorf closed eyes tight and brought his hand up to his watch. from that distance, the explosion shook the world. Heat seared… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
All life is sacred. Since life is an affirmation of the Creator, I shall live on, even when I am gone. In… — John Harricharan Copy Share Image
Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
When you walk through the storm, hold your head high And don't be afraid of the dark! At the end of the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you want to know who you are, look into the true mirror. The flower will reflect your beauty. The sky will… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image