It goes up and down the stairs without moving.
Answer: Rail

Give it food and it will live; 
give it water and it will die.
Answer: Fire

He has a look of awful scorn,  
And wears his clothes a funny way,  
Waving his hands over fields of corn,  
He keeps the birds away!
Answer: Scarecrow

I have a 100 legs but cannot stand.
A long neck but no head.
And I eat the maids life.
Answer: Broom

The man who invented it, doesn't want it.
The man who bought it, doesn't need it.
The man who needs it, doesn't know it.
Answer: Coffin

The more there is the less you see.
Answer: Darkness

They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
Answer: Stars

The more you take the more you leave behind.
Answer: Footsteps

Light as a feather, there is nothing in it;
the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute?
Answer: Breath

As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb,
but it was not flesh, fish, bone or fowl.
Answer: Glove

What can run but never walks,
has a mouth but never talks,
has a head but never weeps,
has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: River

What eats rocks, levels mountains,
rusts metal, pushes the clouds across the sky,
and can make a young man old?
Answer: Time

Use me well and I am everybody,
scratch my back and I am nobody.
Answer: Mirror

Yellow and white  Hard outside,
Stolen from life. What am I?
Answer: Egg

Squeeze it and it cries tears as red as its flesh,
but its heart is made of stone.
Answer: Cherry

I am the black child of a white father,
a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven.
I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me,
even though there is no cause for grief,
and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.
Answer: Smoke

I am both Mother and Father.
I am seldom still, yet I never wander.
I never birth nor nurse.
Answer: A tree

Born Motherless and Fatherless,
Into this world without a sin.
Made a load roar as I entered,
And thus never spoked again.
Answer:Thunder

There is a thing that nothing is, and yet it has a name.
  It's sometimes tall and sometimes short,
joins our talks and joins our sports,
and plays at every game?
Answer:Shadow

Through wind and rain I always play,
I roam the earth, yet here I stay;
I crumble stones, and fire cannot burn me;
Yet I am soft- you can gauge me with your hand.
Answer:  The oceann