A Quotes
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“And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)”
“And beyond the Wild Wood again?' he asked. 'Where it's all blue and dim and one sees what may be hills or perhaps they mayn't and something like the smoke of towns or is it only cloud drift.'
'Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something the doesn't matter either to you or me.”
Source: The wind in the willows
“And, Bianca, come with me. I would like to speak with you."
"What about me?" Nico asked.”
Source: The Titan’s Curse
“And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.”
“And Big Night, I think by the end, the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.”
“And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“And blessed are the horny hands of toil.”
“And blessed are they who have learned the rhythms of the invisible clock whose hours and minutes are immense and soundless. The great clock of the seasons and the years, and the small clock of the intuition, whose timing is guided by the heart.”
“And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!”
“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition
“And blood and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least they are together.”
Source: Gemina
“And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.”
Source: The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction
“And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.”
“and bodiless black lace woods in
which one to another a songbird asks
is it light is it light
not quite”
Source: Falling Awake
“And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.”
“And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.”
“And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.”
“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”
Source: Blackwood Farm
“And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast, delicious varieties for our tables, refreshments from our orchards, the adornments of our flower-borders, shade and perfume of our groves, materials for our buildings, or medicaments for our bodies.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.”
“And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.”
Source: Lover Reborn: Number 10 in series
“And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.”
“And Brewer, watch yer step round here. In a small town, secrets got a way of sneakin’ up on ya from behind when ya least expect.”
Source: Fertile Ground for Murder
“And Brighton have beaten Southampton 4-2 which is exactly the same result as last year when they won 3-1”
“And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.”
“And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.”
“And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa—she loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybody’s?”
“And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.”
“And brought of mighty ale a large quart.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“And bundles upon bundles of fresh ferny herbs in shades of pine green, pickle green and pistachio green-- a whole color chart of green. Dill, tarragon, parsley and coriander, in contrast to raisin-colored purple basil.
In restaurants, what comes to the table? First, wine and bread--- in the shape of a slender Venetian gondola that has been baked in a round clay oven called a tone. The bread is crusty, but soft within, charred a bit on the bottom. Then, a dozen or more fragrant things. Rabbit soup made with walnut, pepper and garlic. Oyster mushroom and coriander soup. Beetroot quarters in sunflower oil and dill. Catfish in vinegar and coriander sauce. Bean stew and pickled vegetables. Chicken roulade in walnut sauce. Lobiani, which is a flatbread-- possibly the finest of all flatbreads-- filled with mashed kidney beans. Gebjalia, fresh cheese rolled in mint. Flowering coriander in hazelnut pesto and spicy green adjika. A whole stubby cucumber (peeled). Fermented forest jonjoli-- samphire-like, tasting of capers and with bell-shaped flowers, harvested in spring-- dressed with Kakhetian sunflower oil. Fried sulguni cheese, salty and chewy. Pink-hued Georgian trout. Tarragon panna cotta topped with blue cornflower. Matsoni, impossibly good homemade yoghurt, tart and cool, served with an inky and elegant black walnut preserve.
And heaps of herbs. Always herbs. Herbs are flavor, herbs are a whole salad bar; herbs are medicine, a salve. Invasive, weedy and rampant, like mint and goutweed, they are also pagan charms to attract friendship or fortune. Free-growing and bountiful, they have been survival food during the darkest periods of war, and verdant ornaments during the happiest days.”
Source: Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
“And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.”
Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“And burn you shall, Bitch”
Source: A Kingdom of Lies
“And Burns--though brief the race he ran,
Though rough and dark the paths he trod,
Lived--died--in form and soul a man,
The image of his God.”
Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems
“And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain,
But who can get another life again?”
“And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.”
Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
“And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.”
“And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind of fall in love with the idea, 'This is the film-industry that I signed up for! This is really wonderful.' But then they go back to another set and everybody's on their cellphone, everyone's in their own little box, and they get depressed about it.”
“And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.”
“And by experiencing prairie---over the four seasons, and at various times of day, in all weathers---you develop a heightened sense of awe and wonder that will spill over into every other area of your life.”
Source: The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction
“And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.”
Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set
“And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.”
“And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like?" I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?”
“And by laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans.”
“And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.”
“And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor
“And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.”
“And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people who have been loyal to us, thus far, which is primarily our audience.”