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“Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.”

Way Looks Littles Sometimes Bigs Universe Seeing Planets Depends Blessed Rounds Invisible Visible Cursed

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.”

Littles Stories Fire Comfortable Draws Shame Rounds Winter Smell Ghost Spooky Ghost Stories Chestnuts

Book:Christmas Stories from

Source: Christmas Stories from

“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.”

“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.”

Littles Games Cutting Streets Bears Married Humorous Garden Died Rounds Pops Ran Apples Shops Boots Heels Pie Buttons Leafs Soap Cabbage Gunpowder Barbers Apple Pie

Author:Samuel Foote

“Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.”

World Children Littles Sky Bird And Love Dancing Dance Rounds Shoulders Sunday Bells Fists Silk Parrots

Author:Aime Cesaire

“God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children”

Giving Heart Children Littles Soul Earth Faces Purpose Father Race Higher Aim Rounds Affection My Soul Enterprise Faculty Bless Exertion Unselfish Great Father Tender Hearts Happy Smile

Author:Mary Howitt

“All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their work begins; this they lengthen according to their work, during what they call 'all day long'; and end it when they close their eyes. It is they who say the days are long. On the contrary, the days are round.”

People Littles Long Ends Eye Work Long Time Rounds Contrary Dawn Civilized

Author:Jean Giono

“God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.”

Giving Littles Heaven Wings Rounds Deeds Spread

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays