I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs. She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees the...
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. Vague dream-head lifted out of the ground, And thing next most diffuse to cloud, Not all your light tongues talking aloud...
My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was a small girl. Pianos, of course, came complete with the quintessential piano teacher who whacked my hand with a stick each time I struck the wron...
Ideas are fruits of your thinking. But they've got to be harnessed and put to work to have value. Each year an oak tree produces enough acorns to populate a good-size forest. Yet from these bushels of seeds perhaps only one or two acorns will become ...
I Am Vertical But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil Sucking up minerals and motherly love So that each March I may gleam into leaf, Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly ...
In our part of the country, spring passes quickly. If you haven't been out for five days, you find the trees in bud. If you don't see the trees for another five days, you discover that they've put out leaves. In another five days, they're so green yo...
Pak Suleh recalled the atmosphere on his island of Pulau Sebidang, which had been ruled by his ancestors for more than a hundred years. Now it had been passed to foreign hands—whichever nation from whatever foreign world which had been claiming the...
Christmas is Christ love for mankind.
Always winter but never Christmas.
Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love.
The love at Christmas should be with us throughout the coming year.
Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.
The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.
My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
