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• One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color.
  Like the young sunflower, when we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. He truly is our light and life.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Flower, Son, Light

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• A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Book, Rivers

  John Steinbeck (1965). “Of mice and men”, Bantam

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• Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sweet, Food, Pale Yellow

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• Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understanding, and the very heart.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Memories, Heart, Understanding

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• The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.

  Tulku Thondup

  Light, Air, Blue

  Tulku Thondup (2001). “Boundless Healing: Medittion Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.

  Thom Yorke

  Kids, Eye, Government

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• I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Bed, Done

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• When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you're left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.

  Bill Nye

  Morning, Light, Blue

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• My grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't
  mind him reading lips, but he uses one of those yellow highlighters.

  Brian Kiley

  Reading, Mind, Grandfather

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• If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

  Joe Mantegna

  Light, Years, Humanity

  "Joe Mantegna on Chicago-style Italian beef and his crush on Errol Flynn". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 31, 2015.

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• Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Blue, Bills

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.665, Modern Library

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• Chain me with roaring bears;
  Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
  O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
  With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
  Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
  And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
  Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
  And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,
  To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Skulls

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media

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• Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Race, White

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.43, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Country, Fall, Autumn

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• I'll
  Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll
  pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll
  write a poem called Yellow and put
  my lips down to drink it up.

  Anne Sexton

  Hope, Motivation, Writing

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• If I admire my arms, my face,
  my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
  against the yellow drawn shades,--
  
  Who shall say I am not
  the happy genius of my household?

  William Carlos Williams

  Happiness, Self, Genius

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• It's the anarchy of poverty
  delights me, the old
  yellow wooden house indented
  among the new brick tenements

  William Carlos Williams

  House, Delight, Anarchy

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.129, New Directions Publishing

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• If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should ever need another emblem, one which is friendly and pleasant, then I think they should choose the grapefruit. Or rather the half grapefruit, for this fruit only comes in halves, I believe. Practically speaking, it is always yellow, always just as fresh and well served. And it always comes at the same, still hopeful hour of the morning.

  Johan Huizinga

  Morning, Stars, Believe

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• If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Black, Prestige

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• down the sidewalk
  where laborers feed their dirty
  glistening torsos sandwiches
  and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
  on. They protect them from falling
  bricks, I guess.

  Frank O'Hara

  Dirty, Fall, Cities

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.257, Univ of California Press

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• It is night,
  And it is vanity, and age
  Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear,
  The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

  Robert Lowell

  Fear, Heart, Night

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,
  roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,
  yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter
  frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers:
  O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.

  Donald Hall

  Horse, Winter, Autumn

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems: Donald Hall”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Name Yellow Wolf comes from life experiences. Yellow is the color of the sun - its power, fire, and hunger. Wolf represents my fierceness and ability to survive.

  Yelawolf

  Fire, Color, Names

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• Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

  Regina Doman

  Pale Yellow, Blue, Jeans

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• How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sweet, Lying, Eye

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