I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard… — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn. — Buddy Rice Copy Share Image
I adore Wilkie Collins,” Tessa cried. “Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White … Are you laughing at me?” “Not at you,” said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and… — Ben Berger Copy Share Image
Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)-… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Once our idea of heaven meant all the dead relatives waiting on the kept lawn of the many mansions as if, suddenly… — Deborah Digges Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
