"For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter."

-- Janet Frame

#Spring Quotes #Winter Quotes #Cherry Blossom Quotes

“I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I can't think. I can't think like have thoughts in my head and think them through and come to a conclusion. It's like math for me.”
“The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.”
“They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.”
“The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?”

Source : Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.17
“Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.”
“But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.”
“I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.”
“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.”

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