Pastoral Resources

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.

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

Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans.

Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.