We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
The reason we do activism is because, maybe you haven't been raped or abused, but there are millions of people who can't… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can… — George Polya Copy Share Image
For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
He was smiling again, his face alight, and Ivy knew her own expression was a mirror to his. Ivoleyn, he said, softly… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the… — Howard Ashman Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine.… — Stan Rice Copy Share Image
Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“She warned him that, if he got killed, she should cut down the great cedar at the south-west corner of Groby. It… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
You love to listen to the very things that nailed your supposed Master to the tree?! Come off of it, man! Become… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from… — Oliver Morton Copy Share Image
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn't climb up the… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
