Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Bridge over Troubled Water
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)
“Where great whales come sailing by,
Sail and sail, with unshut eye,
Round the world for ever and aye?
When did music come this way?
Children dear, was it yesterday?”
St. 3
The Forsaken Merman (1849)
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EVEN
-ING
WILL
COME”
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Source: From the Corner of His Eye
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“And we're sailing, we're sailing,
Way up to Caledonia,
We're from Denmark.”
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Listen to the Lion
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Magnus gubernator et scisso navigat velo.
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Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
volume I, chapter IX: "Life at Down", page 385 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=405&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image; letter http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-1489 to William Darwin Fox (24 October 1852) <br class="br">quoted in At Home: A Short History of Private Life (2011) by Bill Bryson <br class="br">The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Josephus Daniels, ambassador to Mexico, sent this quotation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 1, 1936, in a note of New Year greetings, with this comment: "Here is an expression from Holmes which, if it has missed you, is so good you may find a use for it in one of your 'fireside' talks". Reported in Carroll Kilpatrick, ed., Roosevelt and Daniels (1952), p. 159.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“But don't you realize, that's where I sail.”
Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) United States Senator
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