Zealand Storm Petrel

Famous quotes containing the words zealand, storm and/or petrel:

    Teasing is universal. Anthropologists have found the same fundamental patterns of teasing among New Zealand aborigine children and inner-city kids on the playgrounds of Philadelphia.
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    Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
    Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
    My child sleeps on.
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    Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
    The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
    Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)