The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“When, on a summer evening, the melodious sky growls like a tawny lion, and everyone is complaining of the storm, it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“June verges. It shifts. And it holds two forces at once: the start of summer, the start of darkening.” — Nina MacLaughlin Copy Share Image
Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I will be unto the Sun and Earth and be come the Shining Stars at Night then Level with the Moon — Kendra Copy Share Image
As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon. — David Harewood Copy Share Image
We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
