“Wheels can take you around.
Wheels can cut you down.
We can go from boom to bust.
From dreams to a bowl of dust.
We can fall from rockets' red glare, down to "Brother can you spare…"
Another war.
Another wasteland.
And another lost generation
-- Between The Wheels (1984)”

1860s, Second State of the Union address (1862)
Context: Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

The Great Sentinel http://books.google.com/books?id=6XRDAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=galloping in Young India 13 October 1921 <br class="br">1920s

As quoted in Rolling Stone no. 421 (1984)
Context: Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

Source: Heartburn

Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)

Source: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 10, “The Method of Science”, p. 105

Thom Merrilin, quoting an ancient song
(27 October 2009)

Source: Epistle to Curio (1744), Lines 265–268