Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
Hi, Max," she said, pushing her shades up onto her curls. "I hope your wearing sunscreen," i said, “your gonna have hella… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
You say the love the rain, yet you use an umbrella. You say you love the sun, yet you look for shade.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight, From Life's glad morning to its solemn night; Yet, through the dear Lord's love,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“You don’t think me a handsome man?” She shrugged. “I’ve only seen your hands and eyes. For all I know, you’re hiding… — Grace Draven Copy Share Image
For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
She couldn’t have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Do you know who will go first on the Day of Resurrection to the… — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi Copy Share Image
It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is said that I'm distant and cold. I'm just someone who's very shy. I'm not comfortable doing interviews because I have… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of… — John Denver Copy Share Image
And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head… — Jonah Copy Share Image
The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
“His fingers settled on her hair. The purest, softest shade of black. The shade one saw when one closed one's eyes, in… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I know because the movie's made a lot of money, everyone's relaxed a bit so there wasn't that pressure to set the… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech,… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image