- O, tată, în preajmă-ţi să vezi tu nu ştii? Sunt iele, crăiese, pe plaiuri pustii. - Iubite copile, privesc în zadar, Sunt surele sălcii, cu frunzetul rar...

Dar cine goneşte prin noapte şi vânt? Un tată călare cu fiul plăpând. În braţe îşi ţine copilul cuprins Şi braţul se strânge mai cald, într-adins.

- Obrazul, copile, de ce ţi-l fereşti? - O, tată, pe-al ielelor rege-l zăreşti? Tu nu-i vezi cununa şi coada de vrac? - Sunt neguri copile, ce-n vânt se desfac.

"O, dragă băiete, cu mine nu vii?... În jocuri voioase juca-vom zglobii! Flori multe, pestriţe, se-nşiră pe plaur, Iar maică-mea are veşminte de aur!"

- O, tată, o, tată, chiar el mi-a şoptit, Al ielelor rege mi-a făgăduit... - Te-alină, copile, ascultă-mi cuvântul, Prin frunze uscate doar freamătă vântul!

"Vrei, dragă băiete, cu mine să vii? Fecioarele mele cu drag te-or sluji, Fecioarele mele în noapte-or cânta, În dansuri şi jocuri te vor legăna!"

"Îmi placi, chipul tău mă aţâţă... Ehei! Te-oi lua dar cu sila, chiar dacă nu vrei!" - O, tată, acuma mă strânge-nzecit, Al ielelor rege nespus m-a rănit!

Părintele-n tremuri se-ntrece gonind, Mai strâns prinde-n braţe copilul gemând; Ajunge acasă de trudă învins, În braţele sale copilul s-a stins.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

I grew up in a small town in Kansas, so I love meeting the fans. Those are the people who spend time out of their day to watch the things that I've done, and I've gotten to do some great supernatural stuff - 'Teen Wolf' and 'The Gates' before that - so it's nice when I get to go to Comic-Con every year.

I'm a huge kale fan.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.

I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy; reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

The difference between wanting and achieving is discipline.

We've unveiled the most comprehensive reform budget people have seen in a generation.

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

My wife said to me: 'If you won the lottery, would you still love me?' I said: 'Of course I would. I'd miss you, but I'd still love you.'

Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.

All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.

Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.