#silver

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. ↗

— Sean Bean

#birch #couple #doing #few #gardening

Some men eat dinner with silverware. Some use chopsticks. I prefer zippers.
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— Jarod Kintz

#dinner #eat #food #oral-sex #preference

We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#concerned #congress #country #enough #far

We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#exchange #invite #make #silver #then

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#authority #children #entertainment #entertainment industry #everything

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#better #better person #else #hours #i

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. ↗

— Euripides

#current #gold #only #over #passes

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#nothing #platter #presented #really #silver

I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of-as though it's some sort of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex. I had a boyfriend once, but I never liked being with him the way I like being with you." I held his gaze, refusing to falter or look away." You're one of the best friends I've ever had, Milo. And that is everything to me. ↗

— R.J. Anderson

#friendship #love #milo #niki #quicksilver

Hey, Zee,” I said. “I take it that you can fix it, but it’ll be miserable, and you’d rather haul it to the dump and start from scratch.” “Piece of junk,” groused Zee. “What’s not rusted to pieces is bent. If you took all the good parts and put them in a pile, you could carry them out in your pocket.” There was a little pause. “Even if you only had a small pocket.” I patted the car. “Don’t you listen to him,” I whispered to it. “You’ll be out of here and back on the road in no time.” Zee propelled himself all the way under the car so his head stuck out by my feet. “Don’t you promise something you can’t deliver,” he snarled. I raised my eyebrows, and said in dulcet tones, “Are you telling me you can’t fix it? I’m sorry. I distinctly remember you saying that there is nothing you can’t fix. I must have been mistaken, and it was someone else wearing your mouth.” He gave a growl that would have done Sam credit, and pushed himself back under again, muttering,“Deine Mutter war ein Cola-Automat!” “Her mama might have been a pop machine,” I said, responding to one of the remarks I understood even at full Zee-speed. “Your mama . . .” sounds the same in a number of languages. “But she was a beauty in her day.” I grinned at Gabriel. “We women have to stick together. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#gabriel-sandoval #humor #mercy-thompson #silver-borne #zee