William Cullen Bryant Quotes

When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multitude Of golden chalices to humming-birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.

William Cullen Bryant

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• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Hand

• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Air

• My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flower
  • Treatment
  • Sexist

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Think
  • Want
  • Air

• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • She
  • Air

• COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the lungs.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Air
  • Breathe

• My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Mother
  • High

• Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Air
  • Rights

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Weird
  • Dog
  • Bird

• As you get older, it's harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It's also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.

  

  Kerri Strug
  • Air
  • Fly

• My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.' So it's harder to get a show on the air, but at the same time, there are a lot of terrific shows.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Air

• Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • World
  • Logic
  • Internal

• I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • True
  • Feeling

• Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Good
  • Important
  • Growth

• When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multitude Of golden chalices to humming-birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Air
  • Tree
  • Flower