Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.
Are you done yet?' Issac called Charles tilted his head back and called back, 'I suppose that's why they call you the five minute wonder. ' Anna could feel her eyes round and her mouth drop open 'I cant believe you just said that' She paused and reconsidered. 'I am so telling Samuel you said that. ' Charles smiled. kissed her gently, and said 'Samuel won't believe you.
Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.
Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.
I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health.
When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to do. I didn't want it to be gentle like most puppet shows tend to be, since they come from childhood where you're gently trying to tell a story. I wanted to blast all that out of the water. I think there's plenty of room of any kind of attitude toward puppets. I call puppeteering acting while hiding.
I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.
Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.
I loved her as the sun loves the flower: ever-present, nourishingly, and gently.
They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
How I like claret!. . . It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a peace-maker, and lies as quiet as it did in the grape. Then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee, and the more ethereal part mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments, like a bully looking for his trull, and hurrying from door to door, bouncing against the wainscott, but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently that you do not feel his step.
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.