Wild Quotes

2102 Wild quotes by 1380 unique authors

spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile… — Ani DiFranco
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… — Charlotte Bronte
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance… — Katherine Mansfield
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. — William Faulkner
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and… — Wendell Berry
It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such… — John Irving
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite… — Truman Capote
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets… — Toni Morrison
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of… — Willa Cather
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization… — Edward Abbey
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. — Aldo Leopold
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most… — Hunter S. Thompson
As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and… — Robinson Jeffers
When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices… — Jack Kerouac
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their… — Agatha Christie
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness! — Pablo Picasso
He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course… — C.S. Lewis
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be… — Henry David Thoreau
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. — Tennessee Williams
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild... — Mary Karr

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