“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”
Edna St. Vincent Millay book A Few Figs from Thistles
Source: "Second Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)
“I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 538.
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“I am a rock.
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain.
And an island never cries.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
I Am a Rock
Song lyrics, Sounds of Silence (1966)
Source: Lyrics 1964-2008
Context: I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock.
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain.
And an island never cries.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
What Must We Do To Be Saved? (1880) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38801/38801-h/38801-h.htm Section XI, "What Do You Propose?" <br class="br">Context: I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful.<br>Upon that rock I stand.<br>That he will not torture the forgiving.<br>Upon that rock I stand.<br>That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star, in which honesty is a crime.<br>Upon that rock I stand.<br>The honest man, the good woman, the happy child, have nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come.<br>Upon that rock I stand.
Henry Melvill (1798–1871) British academic
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 101.