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“When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.”

Want Children Important Home Able Night Morning Sun Dad Comfort Moon Important Things Come Up Coming Home

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.”

Children Three Sun Towns West Sailing Fisherman

Author:Charles Kingsley

“The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.”

Men Children Doe Ends Joy Sun Tree Sea Return Lifts Anguish Renewal Lofty Coconuts Cyclones

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wile.”

Looks Children Heaven Dark Sun Cry Rain Shining Cheer Wet Rainbow Brooks Thistles

Author:Mary Howitt

“The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness they had to be distorted enormously in order to contain it all. Womanhood was strong in Kitwancool.”

Children Hands Bigs Mother Order Strong Sun Gender Tenderness Womanhood Hand Holding

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.”

Children Light Water Sun Wave Glad Ships Tall Purple Vessel Flushing

Book:The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia

Source: The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia

“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”

Mind Children Sometimes Light Law Dark Darkness Sun Imagine Aspect Blind Terror Rays Laws Of Nature

Author:Lucretius

“I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.”

Thinking Children Darkness Sun Wind Listening Useless Looking Down Apaches

Author:Geronimo

“Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down”

Mind Believe Wells Looks Children Feelings Seems Death Hate Dies I Believe Lord Sun Dying Cry I Hate My Children Fixing Lonesome Burying

Author:Bob Dylan

“Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.”

Children Watches Sun Our Children Prepared Dawn Our Time

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995