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flower boys men
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root. C. S. Lewis
flower eden rose
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty. Charlotte Bronte
flower night ice
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; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.
flower hands wish
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
flower excellence progress
Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress. Charles Sumner
flower men he-man
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it. Charles Dudley Warner
flower memorable thinking
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Charles Dickens
flower sleep eye
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
flower thinking may
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. Charles Caleb Colton
snakes games ladders
Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders. David Moody
snakes long mowing
It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes. Barbara Ehrenreich
snakes circles cost
The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.
snakes spaghetti
I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti. Demetri Martin
snakes long cards
Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you. Elizabeth Warren
snakes oil people
In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead. Charles Krauthammer
snakes feelings watches
I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer. Dean Acheson
snakes long diversity
We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth! Edward Abbey
snakes might done
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake. Elinor Glyn
earth
Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.
earth may mars
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept. Agnes Repplier
earth grow later sad squirrel squirrels time
When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad? Tove Jansson
earth extreme models physics provides test venus
Venus provides an extreme test for the atmospheric physics models that we have for Earth. Andrew Coates
earth lessons teach venus
Venus has a lot of lessons to teach the Earth about how things could go awry.
earth hope launch ultimately
Ultimately we hope to be able to use it to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit.
earth clubs exclusive
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. David Mitchell
earth social-network social
Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them. David Sze
earthquakes water fracking
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. David Suzuki