I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
To live is to watch the sun rise on an Autumn morning. To survive is to see the sun burn in the Summer afternoon. And to die is to watch the sun fall on a cold Winter night.
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.
Grand Mage,” Ghastly said, as he put the map away, “did you know the sparrow flies south for the winter?” “What an odd thing to say,” Ravel said, and as he turned, he snapped his palm against the air and Paloma slammed into the wall.” …...
I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used to. Take any American city, in autumn, or in winter, when the light makes the colors dance and flow, and look at it from a distant hill or...
Natasha Romanoff: Alright, I have a question for you, of which you do not have to answer. I feel like if you don't answer it though, you're kind of answering it, you know? Steve Rogers: What? Natasha Romanoff: Was that your first kiss since 1945? Ste...
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.
Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.
He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.
It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
Love is a flame in the dark. A breath of warmth on a winter's night. A star that guides you home.
...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming...
...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.
Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise.
It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.
Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last
In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.
