Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

Alan Jay Lerner

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

Chris Cleave

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

Chris Bosh

If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

Chloe Sevigny

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

China Mieville

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

Edward Hoagland

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

Chief Seattle

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

David Hockney

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

David Brooks

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

Arthur Rimbaud

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

Bertolt Brecht

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Alan Lee

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

Chanakya

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

Charles Baudelaire

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

Charles Manson

There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Viscott

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details

Charlaine Harris

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Charlie Melancon

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

Bob Saget

Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.

Bill Watterson

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

Catherine Booth

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

Camille Paglia

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.