When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“If someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and… — Magan Vernon Copy Share Image
People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles… — Haruo Shirane Copy Share Image
“The Spring can be more painful than any other time of the year. Summer is lazy and indifferent. Autumn is demanding and… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She heard the zip of his pants, and expected him to step away from her, leave her alone in the bathroom to… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
As I've said a million times, I'm obsessed with Liya Kebede's LemLem line. The pieces, made by artisans in her native Ethiopia,… — Amanda Hearst Copy Share Image
I love feminine soft shades for summers - I like pastels and bright hues, too. I like summer dresses and tank tops;… — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
The state calls Paul Winthrop to the stand." ... Paul answered the opening questions briefly, weighing his words, his eyes on Julia's.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in… — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to… — Robert Frost 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
It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“We came out on Coldra Crescent, one of those warm air nights, stars spitting in the sky like firebugs stuck on a… — Ron Berry Copy Share Image
I don't think the summer is short. I would rather play hockey than work out in the gym. It would be tougher… — Henrik Zetterberg Copy Share Image
Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“I was doing the new Summer Lady a favor, running down a rogue storm sylph. Got to go all over the place… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There was a summer in college where I worked for a stretch picking up garbage at the beach. On the early shift,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm… — Robert Jones Burdette Copy Share Image
What people don't understand is the summertime is motivation - how willing you're willing to work for the upcoming season - and… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
“The winter drew on — a season as different from the summer in those northern latitudes, as if it belonged to another… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Outside there's a chill in the air that reminds me autumn is on the way, even though it's still only September. This… — Zoe Sugg Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
So, when I was eight or nine my mom's friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Between the redwoods, growing up and enjoying nature, camping on almost every vacation, and getting to go to summer camp in the… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
