Children Quote by Black Elk

“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.…

— Black Elk

“Through the night, the black canyon groaned & heaved & gurgled, as if we slept in the belly of a coldblooded beast. I slept…

— Eowyn Ivey

“And when all was done and all was said, we sat silently staring at the moon's reflection on the rippling river, soaking it all…

— Alys Arden

“The streets were full of destruction and rubble, and this town I'd never liked, with its stupid people, stupid streets, and stupid houses, was…

— Ghérasim Luca

“But in a dream I might get to see the part of the swamp where her body washed up, bloated and rippling, or where…

— Karen Russell

“People, her people at least, were always chasing shattered hopes. A father gazing down on dead soil, with a brood of hollow-cheeked children sitting…

— A Cruel Harvest

“Those mountains had been there since before I was born, and they'd still be there when I was gone. They'd stayed standing through every…

— Joseph Knox

“They watched the elk gallop and mull about like a new texture being laid, and their presence against the mountains in that high sweet…

— Robert Gatewood

“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered…

— Arthur Golden

“But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given…

— Black Elk

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't…

— Ray Bradbury