Aboveground Quotes

#1. From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.

Bao Shu

#2. In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so best to keep his words aboveground where they might be shared and admired.

Patrick DeWitt

#3. way the Capitol shows it on television, but there's next to no life aboveground. In the seventy-five

Suzanne Collins

#4. Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

Haruki Murakami

#5. Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.

Suzanne Collins

#6. Still I feel a rush of gladness from being done with that bunker, that crypt. I burst up into the aboveground, drinking air and daylight like a surfacing diver. I

Ben H. Winters

#7. El-Masri lies under gravel and shingle, with no part of him visible aboveground except his left hand

Steven Pressfield

#8. Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths - or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today.

Ian Frazier

#9. Substitute any vegetable that grows with its leafy head aboveground for another: a flower for a flower, a root for a root, shoot for shoot, stem for stem, tuber for tuber. (No rules apply to beets.

Tamar Adler

#10. While it is relatively easy to recognize the perennial grasses and seed-eating sparrows as characteristic of meadows, the ecosystems exist in their fullest sense underground. What we see aboveground is only the outer margin of an ecosystem that explodes in intricacy and life below.

Amy Seidl

#11. I had ignored that black cellar and gone looking for the substance of Orgoreyn aboveground, in daylight. No wonder nothing had seemed real. I

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

Julius Lester

#13. I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

Markus Zusak

#14. Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Naguib Mahfouz

#15. At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter

Zach Braff

#16. Humans would become very sick without natural radio frequency (RF) exposures.

Steven Magee

#17. Shall I be'her'?

Colin Clark

#18. You sit better on a colour that you like

Verner Panton

#19. Lost is just another word for exploring.

Sandy Gingras

#20. You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Ted Hughes