He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
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I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
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The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life?… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
God is the Seed;The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
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Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. ... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The Arctic is a highway. The tree limit, the scarcity of trees, freed people to walk. Particularly in the wintertime. Which connected… — Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa Copy Share Image
My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
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Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences and ideas dragged… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year,… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The technology we have available is not being used, and we don't have to tell stories in a line anymore. We can… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart,… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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