Dry Season Quotes

#1. I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages ... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Janet Fitch

#2. Certain creatures laid eggs that were able to endure the dry season. Others survived by burying themselves in mud, simulating death, waiting for the return of rain.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health.

Chinua Achebe

#4. Nobody wants to share in your PAINS, but they think they have a right to partake of your GAINS. Task your BRAIN too and see if it's that easy to enjoy RAIN in dry season.

Bayode Ojo

#5. I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.

Gertrude Diamant

#6. You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

Barry Lopez

#7. The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.

Seth Godin

#8. Sometimes we don't have a choice in where we come from, but we can definitely choose where we go from there.

Faraaz Kazi

#9. Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.

Frederick Buechner

#10. I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

George Bentham

#11. The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. it's a good thing I'm used to this;
the process of shutting things out
as they fall apart,
the pretence of cool
in a dry, hot season,
the taste of redemption
in a t.v. screen


if God had a voice
what would it say?

Hima Raza

#13. Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Jakob Dylan

#14. Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

Louise Erdrich

#15. The air feels sugary and thick, between the coffee steam and the music, and I forget to notice time passing, hours passing.

Jackson Pearce