The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times.

The season developed and matured. Another year’s instalment of flowers, leaves, nightingales, thrushes, finches, and such ephemeral creatures, took up their positions where only a year ago others had stood in their place when these were nothing more than germs and inorganic particles. Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Barcelona is always a club that, at the beginning of the season, wants to win everything. I will try my best to do that with them and I’m sure I will help as much as I can

Winning a trophy would be a good way to finish a bad season in a positive way. But I’m not obsessed by the fact I have to win a trophy every year – it’s a nice thing, but I know it’s sometimes impossible.

It’s nice to win a trophy every season and say every year, ‘OK, I won something.’

Everybody wants to play in Europe, and if you’re in the rhythm of playing a game every three or four days, sometimes you can play better, even though it’s harder at the end of the season.

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that’s down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.

When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we’ve had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts.

I take it season by season. I don’t like looking too far ahead, because you never know what can happen.

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.

I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out.

The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of ‘Homeland’. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: “What did you think?”

Be sincere; be brief; be seated

I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don’t, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all season

I had constant communication with the Red Sox, and they were awesome all the way through. It became clear I wasn’t going to be ready to start the season, so it didn’t make sense to hold that roster spot. I had nothing but great support from the Red Sox.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that’s not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.

When you’ve got a player who does what he does at that pace this late in the game than you know you’ve got an invaluable talent.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born

I was happy and I was free and I was living it up. I don’t regret that, because you know people, they try to make you feel like it was wrong that I used to show my boobs or like freaking walk around naked or strip and people would try to make me feel like I was wrong for doing that and then for a second, I would be like, ‘Why did I did that?’ And then I was like, ‘F*ck that!’ Because I had a good time

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

Everything in life got its purpose, find its reason in every season

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter

A word in season is most precious.

After the rain cometh the fair weather

The one who learns to live with his guilt lives to see another sunrise

There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.