Quotes on the topic: Pine


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When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.


My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.


We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.


I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.


I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.


Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.


The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.


Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.


To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.


I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.