Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

C. S. Lewis

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

Bill Bryson

It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual, when each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow - flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.

Age Hareide

I think people understand that these are training matches and that in the USA we fielded a domestic league team. It is in the autumn European qualifier that people will judge me.

Andy Robinson

Unfortunately the players are caught in the middle at the moment. I thought the preparation we did in the autumn was spot on but that has not happened this time.

Hugo Claus

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Jim Nantz

Chris Schenkel was a giant. As a boy, I would listen to him. When a game would get really exciting in the fourth quarter, he would say, 'Is there a better way to spend an autumn afternoon?'

Alan Seay

Here we are now the first day of autumn and those lakes are a long way below where they should be, and we do need to be thinking about an electricity shortage in winter.

Rob Andrew

I think it pretty much puts paid to the autumn internationals, so it will most likely be over two years that he hasn't played for England.

Carl Sagan

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

Bill Bryson

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

William Shakespeare

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! -Posthumus Leonatus Act V, Scene V

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

William Shakespeare

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie...

E. F. Schumacher

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Iggy Azalea

I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.

Larry Mowry

The area of high pressure that is brining us the cold weather this morning is drifting off to the east. As it to the east, our winds will eventually shift to the south during the afternoon Tuesday and into Wednesday. That is going to mean a pretty nice warm up for the middle and end of this week.

Ernie Hartlieb

That was the theme this morning, this afternoon and before the game: second place is on the line here. (Tuesday) we had an opportunity to catch some points on Gwinnett because they lost. So we got our points tonight. We'll take it.

Dan Flores

We have an announcement scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in which we are going to release some positive news about a handful of Michigan plants that we haven't previously announced.

Scott Stossel

During first grade, I spent nearly every afternoon for months in the school nurse's office, sick with psychosomatic headaches, begging to go home; by third grade, stomachaches had replaced the headaches, but my daily trudge to the infirmary remained the same.

Art Hogan

We'll probably get some rhetoric over the weekend suggesting we've found the bottom, ... I think weeks or months from now we'll look back and say (last) Thursday afternoon was the low point.

Fran Calverase

We've gotten the word out. Making it in middle of afternoon makes it tough on our members who must work.

Steve Ludlow

My challenge to them was to be better tennis players at 5:30 in the afternoon than they were at 3:30 in the afternoon.

Ross Brawn

Michael's performance was pretty good given his position early in the running order. We are therefore reasonably happy with his performance. Unfortunately, we had some problems with Rubens' car, which was not as good in the afternoon as it had been in the morning. Now we will have to investigate to see why that happened and hope we can have a good race. It's a shame, as Rubens could have been in a much stronger qualifying position.