The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.
Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.
To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.
There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.
I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.
Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.
Training-wise, you have to work on your weaknesses, preparing yourself properly for the game, on and off the field.
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
My whole life, I've been preparing for moments and you can only know how you're going to react once you're in them.
Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
As a working mother of a large family, preparing meals and shopping for groceries is time consuming and hard work.
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.
Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.
Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.
There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.
By the time a meal I'm preparing rolls around, I'm usually so full from tasting that I'm not hungry any more.
I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.
The key to success is hard work. You want to feel as comfortable as you can going into the game, and you do that by preparing well.
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
As long as I still feel a passion for the sport and preparing for these big competitions, I will carry on fighting.
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
Conte speaks a lot with the players, also on the pitch and on the training ground, preparing very well for the games.
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.
I had grown up preparing for the Days of Abomination, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood.
When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World
BottleRock has these incredible VIP cabins where a chef is preparing sushi for you in your cabin or lounge decorated by Restoration Hardware.
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
When you're preparing for a game, you prepare like you're starting. But if you're not, if you're coming off the bench, everybody has a role.
When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.
..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
Every time I'm preparing a new production, I'm trying to reinvent my style and offer the audience several choices.
Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.
Preparing for climate change has to be a national priority backed by tens of billions in federal investment. Lives are on the line.
The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.
Nick Foles, if he wasn't preparing like he was the starter, he wouldn't have been able to become a Super Bowl MVP.
I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.
I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.
If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.
After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I've had no formal acting training.
Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.
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