Astringent Herbs Quotes & Sayings

The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a little while on all sides the Cicada would begin to sing. The grass was me , and the air, the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me. I breathed with the slight night-wind in the thorn trees. — Isak Dinesen

It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful - I will not be able to correct everyone's mistakes before I depart. — Daniel Finkelstein

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time. — Marcia Gay Harden

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing. — Kenny G

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it. — Carl Yastrzemski

For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light. — Franz Kafka

The proud heart of man is very anxious to have a hand in the justification of the soul before God; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

An Englishman once said that he found it easier to be a member of a club than of the human race because the bylaws were shorter, and he knew all the members personally. That sounds about right. — Nelson DeMille