Bats Quote by Josephine Winslow Johnson Download Open image “The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.” — Josephine Winslow Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bats Hung
“The Elm Log By Alexander Solzhenitsyn We were sawing firewood when we picked up an elm log and gave a cry of amazement. It… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Concerning trees and leaves... there's a real power here. It is amazing that trees can turn gravel and bitter salts into these soft-lipped lobes,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Narrow lanes climb both slopes and come together in a great ring of elm trees which encircles the flat summit. Any wind--even the slightest--draws… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A sheet of white extends to the lone dark vertical of the elm tree in the centre ... It is too perfect, to inviolate… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Then the dry road dust rises to whiten the fatigued elm leaves- the nineteenth century, tired of children, is gone. They're all gone into… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“That was the first growth, the heir of all my minutes, the victim of every ramification- more and more it grew green, and gave… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“And there was the inner walking on the edge of darkness, the peering into black doorways...the unrevealed answer which must be somewhere, and yet… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“There must be some reason, I thought, why we should go on year after year, with this lump of debt, scrailing earth down to… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“I like to pretend that the years alter and revalue, but begin to see that time does nothing but enlarge without mutation. You have… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind! — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some… — Ken Griffey, Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become. — Dick Stuart Copy Share Image
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball. — Norm Cash Copy Share Image
(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you. — Marv Levy Copy Share Image
