Famous quotes containing the words long, beach and/or convention:
“It never worked for me.
Something to do with violence
A long way back, and wrong rewards,
And arrogant eternity.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“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.