
“What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?”
Source: The Crimson Crown
Ma.tt http://ma.tt/2009/08/starting-a-bank/, Starting a Bank, August 2009
“What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?”
Source: The Crimson Crown
“To the solid ground
Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye.”
A Volant Tribe of Bards on Earth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
Harvard address (2008)
La Société n'est pas, comme on le croit d'ordinaire, le développement de la Nature, mais bien sa décomposition et sa refonte entière. C'est un second édifice, bâti avec les décombres du premier.
Maximes et Pensées, #8
Reflections, #8
“Our entire people must now stand solid and united as never before.”
Radio broadcast in response to the German invasion (22 June 1941) http://historicalresources.org/2008/08/26/molotov-reaction-to-german-invasion-of-1941/
Context: This is not the first time that our people have had to deal with an attack of an arrogant foe. At the time of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia our people’s reply was war for the fatherland, and Napoleon suffered defeat and met his doom.
It will be the same with Hitler, who in his arrogance has proclaimed a new crusade against our country. The Red Army and our whole people will again wage victorious war for the fatherland, for our country, for honor, for liberty.
The government of the Soviet Union expresses the firm conviction that the whole population of our country, all workers, peasants and intellectuals, men and women, will conscientiously perform their duties and do their work. Our entire people must now stand solid and united as never before.
Each one of us must demand of himself and of others discipline, organization and self-denial worthy of real Soviet patriots, in order to provide for all the needs of the Red Army, Navy and Air Force, to insure victory over the enemy.
The government calls upon you, citizens of the Soviet Union, to rally still more closely around our glorious Bolshevist party, around our Soviet Government, around our great leader and comrade, Stalin. Ours is a righteous cause. The enemy shall be defeated. Victory will be ours.
“You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!
Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?”
"Ain't It the Truth" originally written for Cabin in the Sky (1943), but pulled from the show, and later included in Jamaica (1957) - Lena Horne version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMSyXuvNpeM
Context: Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?
And there is no other
Ain't it the truth?
You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!
Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?
Speech at the opening of a German natural history museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFmqtkeQy9c (13 December 2008)