Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Don't Give Up
Song lyrics, So (1986)
“This place ought never to have been dug up.”
On seeing the great archaeological finds at Taxila, in Punjab (Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 140)
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Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
Psyche
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
Context: The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1903) British mathematician and physicist
[George Gabriel Stokes, Natural theology: The Gifford lectures, delivered before the University of Edinburgh in 1893, Adamant Media Corporation, 1893, 1421205122, 4]
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Lieutenant Governor Levi Lincoln of Massachusetts (November 13, 1808) concerning a petition from the island of Nantucket for food during the American embargo.
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)
René Descartes book Meditations on First Philosophy
Variant: ... it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.
Source: Meditations on First Philosophy
“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator
Source: New Selected Poems
“There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author