Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
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ARNA BONTEMPS Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
ARNA BONTEMPS Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
ARNA BONTEMPS Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not att...
ROBERT HERRICK Fair daffadils, we weep to see
You haste away so soone;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has ...
ROBERT HERRICK The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.
SENATOR JOHN KERRY Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising Sun
Has not...
ROBERT HERRICK The kids really wanted to be district champions, and they went out and played very hard as they have...
JOE WAKELAND I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living.
BETHANY WIGGINS He fought to destroy those monsters, yet found they never seemed to die—rising anew every dawn.
ELIZABETH D. MARIE We can only progress by beating historic rivals, gaining respect, rising step-by-step.
LUIS FERNANDO SUAREZ We don't have a signed plea agreement yet. It is certainly going that way, but it is not totally don...
JOSEPH CONWAY We have some talent, but we still have to go do it. We haven't done anything yet.
HERMAN EDWARDS It's kind of like a general coming down to lead the way. And we feel as if we haven't done anything ...
SCOTT GOMEZ The easy way would have been for me to just let the issue die,
BOB DAY A happy man eagerly awaits the rising of the sun.
GREG DUTILLY You know, we aren't beating the Yankees yet, but you have to walk before you can run.
BRAD HORKY The market is going to do better as the economy slows some and the Fed's done. What's perverse is th...
JASON TRENNERT We all believe we're capable of advancing in the playoffs by beating St. Lawrence. As difficult as t...
KELSEY JOHNSON Rising rates and a flatter curve have fueled investor demand. If rates fall, we would expect to see ...
MARGARET KERINS Funerals are for the living. If we have not done for the dead while they were yet in flesh, it is to...
ROELIF COE BRINKERHOFF The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the ...
LA'PORSHA RENAE That was a job well done. We've swept them in the league, but with Newcastle beating Belfast it make...
PAUL THOMPSON L'Abbe de Ville proposed a toast,
His master, as the rising Sun:
Reisbach then gave the Empres...
LORD STAIR George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun ris...
AL GORE It's fantastic for the game, hopefully we have done a lot for it already and hopefully we can do a b...
ASHLEY GILES Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I am pleased with the way we have started the season. It is always a good feeling to put up some win...
STACEY SULLIVAN The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand. All
SUZANNE COLLINS They would have figured out a way to get the job done.
GINA JOHNSON We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO I ask not a life for the dear ones,
All radiant, as others have done,
But that life may have j...
CHARLES M. DICKINSON For the most part, Sun has tried to tone down some of those public statements and actions of that il...
LAURA CONIGLIARO Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not lik...
C.S. LEWIS Labour with what zeal we will,
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
...
UNKNOWN I know we will never please everyone. But we do have to make some changes. I would like to be a part...
BOB MOORE Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Su...
R.P.T. COFFIN Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Su...
R.P.T. (ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM) COFFIN I'm beating myself up, but it just really came down to one minor, minor casualty and that was on 14....
FRED COUPLES Humans have taken the wrong sight,they should enjoy life as they won't die one day.Nevertheless,we s...
NISHI DE SILVA Then you should have died!" Roared Black. "Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have do...
J.K. ROWLING May our mind be inclined towards virtuous deeds, acquiring strength and long-life! May we continue t...
YAJUR VEDA We want to find some way to offset rising tuition, ... We are looking at fees. Some of them are goin...
ANDREW BURKE You look at what you accomplished last year and you always try to set a higher standard for your tea...
HERMAN EDWARDS As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no dou...
MARK PRYOR Why do we fall down? so we can rise up and become stronger, better, people than we were before we fe...
GARY F EVANS... We use it as motivation. But we know we haven't done anything yet.
HERMAN DEMMINK I'm sure rising interest rates at some point are going to take some buyers out of the marketplace. T...
BERNARD HELM I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
ISABELLE EBERHARDT I have a really strong opponent in Randy Orton. A former multi-time world champion. He's held ju...
ROMAN REIGNS The rising and setting of the sun is enough evidence that God exist..
OLASOT We had some key players that were out. They got them back and they have made a difference. They are ...
DANIEL VALDEZ My sun has not yet set for ever.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE We don't think it's a done deal yet, ... It's moving really slow, so we have to hang with it. But th...
JOE FARMER We don't think it's a done deal yet. It's moving really slow, so we have to hang with it. But there ...
JOE FARMER He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad
"Did he n...
JASPER FFORDE That's prepared us for this situation. This is what we drill for. It's nothing new. We just have to ...
JEFF BRINK Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun.”
ANNE RICE Think of (the Kingdom) like the sun. As it peeks through on a cloudy day, we do not say the sun has ...
KEVIN DEYOUNG We are supposed to get some furniture but we have not heard anything from the ministry as yet.
SHARON REID It was definitely a wake-up. We are still in the Top 25, but [beating N.C. State] would have showed ...
CARL ELLIOTT They have some of this composite application work done and it looks good. But there is a tremendous ...
JOSH GREENBAUM We don't feel we have a choice. We are asking for a tuition increase for the (rising) cost of operat...
ANDY MULLINS Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I would defy anybody anybody in this chamber, anybody in Massachusetts to say that the apocaly...
JARRETT BARRIOS They don't have any power. The water is still rising as we speak.
AMY WILSON Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken,
and yet the cold blue word is spoken:
say goodbye now to ...
R.P.T. (ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM) COFFIN Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in a dese...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I'm disappointed. With as much information as the media has provided, I would have thought there wou...
CHARLIE DEATON You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the
LEO TOLSTOY The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.
SAUL WILLIAMS He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one se...
LEO TOLSTOY By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gen...
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we ha...
TOM PETTY It has a lot of references to nature. The beginning sounds like the sun rising and birds chirping.
GREGORY PRITCHARD Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run.
DAVID GARRICK Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.
DAVID GARRICK Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER ZALAN Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, An...
OSCAR WILDE I would just hate to be here late on a Friday seeing the lakes rising or a storm headed our way and ...
CITY MANAGER MARYANN COURSON (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON I think we're done with moral victories for a while now. We're just as good as Ohio State is. Last y...
MIKE WALKER You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We have some plans for expanding Park Place Estates, but it's not yet on the calendar. The cost for ...
MIKE DONLIN Krishna was conceived
in the womb of Devaki
mysteriously as the sun setting
in the West imparts his...
SRILA PRABHUPADA A lot of countries' economies have done very well on rising exports, but they haven't been as succes...
BRIAN COULTON We don?t think it?s a done deal yet. It?s moving really slow so we have to hang with it. But there i...
JOE FARMER Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to...
GEORGE MEREDITH Do I dare believe such an absurdly outrageous story that a man would die, lay lifeless in some tomb ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a publi...
JEFFREY KLUGER Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run
DAVID GARRICK The others would disperse. Some would join other packs, some would starve. It's a live by the sword,...
JOHN VUCETICH Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed. We would have don...
CATERINA FAKE I feel like we are going to be successful running the football. What we haven't done yet is play a f...
ANDY RINGSTAFF I'm happy for Brett, Nick and Dan. I know it hasn't worked out as well yet as people thought it woul...
JOE BENSON Sometimes we play around too much, but we're learning to be more mature and we have to stay focused ...
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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
ARNA BONTEMPS Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
ARNA BONTEMPS Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
ARNA BONTEMPS Once, he said he wanted to be a pilot and then he switched around and wanted to be a police officer.
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