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.

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!"

- 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...

"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!

From opposing unfair trade deals to fighting for a fair financial system, Hillary Clinton has shown she puts working families first. She knows as president that her first job will be creating jobs for the middle class. I am proud to endorse her today because I know she will keep Ohio moving forward.

By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

Normalcy is not interesting.

The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.

The best counsel for us to give young people is that they can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise, we will encourage, praise, and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

When I first skated here, I definitely felt small out there because it is such a big surface.

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.

Intelligence forbids tears.

Chaos is impatient. Its random. And above all its selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.

Southerners make such good novelists; they have so many good stories because they have so much family.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good.

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.