![]() Twinkling joyous sunlight airy, giggle cloud wisps blinding columns of sun… Gigantic puffy clouds, welcoming, forgiving, repeating infinitely across the horizon as if between mirrors and slices of rain, pounding wet misery in the distance now, but soon on us, and in another part of the sky, a black stain, rainless.” -Maria Semple Every feeling I ever knew was up in that sky. “The sky in Seattle is so low, it felt like God had lowered a silk parachute over us. “It’s hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer’s day.” – Robert Spector “Here in the corner attic of America, two hours’ drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor do they want to.” ― Timothy Egan “I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle.” – Magic Johnson You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.” – Ron Reagan “Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.” – Jonathan Raban So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.” – Dave Grohl “All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. You can’t quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?” – Jonathan Raban And that’s completely typical of Seattle. By day, it doesn’t look like a city at all. “At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. “Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.” -Kimberly Kinrade “To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.” – Tom Robbins I guess what I’m saying: I miss it, the mountains and the water.” – Maria Semple But across our ocean is Bainbridge Island, an evergreen curb, and over it the exploding, craggy, snow-scraped Olympics. The best thing about Seattle is the weather. “In Seattle, we live among the trees and the waterways.” – Garth Stein “Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people they’re all here.” – Quincy Jones No one said we wouldn’t have to struggle first.” – Regina Scott “We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. “The bluest skies you’ve ever seen in Seattle.” – Perry Como Please see our disclosure policy for more detail. If you make a purchase through one of these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Some links in this post may be affiliate links.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |