My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On a small square, wood is being cut for the city school. Cords of healthy, crisp timber are piled high and melt… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make… — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial.… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent,… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
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