Famous quotes containing the words long, beach and/or convention:
“and wove seven strings,
Sweet with all music, out of his long hair,
Because her hands had been made wild by love.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
Those burial clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,
Watching, silently weeps.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.