You ought to see it when it blooms, all dark red flowers from horizon to horizon, like a see of blood. Come the dry season, and the world turns the color of old bronze. And this is only hranna, child. There are hundred kinds of grass out there, grasses as yellow as lemon and as dark as indigo, blue grasses and orange grasses and grasses as rainbows.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS And we will lie down on the ground and have conversations with the grasses and the flowers. AVIJEET DAS This year is similar to last year where we have grass growing in areas where we may not normally see... TOM HOFFMAN Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses? NORMAN MACCAIG Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching th... M.F. MOONZAJER As kind of a benchmark, let’s say this can be as productive as South Bay, which is a beautifu... DAVID HICKS As kind of a benchmark, let’s say this can be as productive as South Bay, which is a beautiful bod... DAVID HICKS Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. To gallop intemperately; fall on th... VIRGINIA WOOLF Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY It'll green up quickly. The big, burned blackened area acts as a solar collector, and the soil, in a... ANDY SUDBROCK The Scarcity of Flowers in the society made guys settle for weeds and grasses.... Trust me i'll rath... GOALSRIDER A breeze came wandering from the sky,
Light as the whispers of a dream;
He put the o'erhanging... WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT The second stage of the project will take place in May when the area is seeded with prairie grasses ... DENNIS MASCHKA It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, ... LEWIS THOMAS When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring... MATSUO BASHō Where they occurred, the light rains wetted fine-textured fuels such as grasses and weeds and thus t... DAVID KERR When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under it... ANTOINE PREDOCK Teach me, Father, how to go Softly as the grasses grow; Hush my soul to meet the shock Of t... EDWIN MARKHAM I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. 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HAYES Stuck right there between red and yellow as the second color in the rainbow, it was orange. Yes, it ... LILY CHATTERJEE ... In this world, darkness is always looming on the horizon. At Gottfried, instead of avoiding the ... YVONNE WOON Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan ge... HAYAO MIYAZAKI It takes decades for shrub communities to restore themselves. Grasses can sprout in a year or two. MIKE COX I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake on... C. JOYBELL C. They're going up into the mountains in search of edible grasses. They're on the beaches collecting s... GERALD BOURKE Orange is what red and yellow can do when they combine efforts. If you paint only with red, you will... REGGIE JOINER In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark pe... KRISTEN WIIG As far as I can tell 15 pages with quotes, it's a lot of... DEYTH BANGER Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind wh... DOGEN Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind wh... DOGEN Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middlun... KRISTIN CASHORE There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you... UMBERTO ECO Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. HELEN REDDY I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as ... RACHELLE LEFEVRE I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny... FAITH BALDWIN The new vantage from which Christian theology as a discourse on Christian identity must operate in t... J. KAMERON CARTER The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious li... YUAN-SOU The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious li... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall J... PIERRE LOTI Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and w... JOHN STEINBECK A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma. JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can. CHRISTA MCAULIFFE The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high ... LEWIS THOMAS With the School Fire, you had so many structures ignite because they generally had continuous grasse... JACK COHEN He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to... CHRISTINA ENGELA When the images came down and we could see horizon all the wayaround, that was every bit as exhilara... CHRIS LEGER I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the ... MARTIN LANDAU I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome ABRAHAM LINCOLN This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses ... SARA TEASDALE The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher... IAN HUNTER In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there'... MALCOLM MCDOWELL As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing. EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism. MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion. ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned. DAVID KOECHNER He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He ... PATRICK DOWNES Death is the horizon of life as we know it; a place we can not see beyond. JIM GENOVESE Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... CRAIG GROESCHEL My best friend was Aboriginal. She taught me about 'bush tucker' - the food of the land, the... ISABEL LUCAS People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. STEPHANIE BEACHAM Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER She once told him about the mysterious trampled-down places found in fields, which the peasants supe... JODY SHIELDS As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which op... ERNEST RENAN As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which ... ERNEST RENAN While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance.... GENA SHOWALTER If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out
that there are hundreds, thous... LEO TOLSTOY Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a... EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred... DAME EDITH SITWELL As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color. BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG While walking in a toy store The day before today, I overheard a Crayon Box With many thin... ANON. To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN As soon as there is light, darkness vanishes and as a result the surroundings become clearly visible... SAM VEDA As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table. GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes. SASHA LANE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism. DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes. HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product. JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes. JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic. TROY BROWN
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MARTIN The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shav... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do . GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister. “Pride?” Catelyn snapp... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—” GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.” His chains chinked softly. “I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men, GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end. The hills that split asunder an... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know. -Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" <... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN