“Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near, and the daylight's past.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
A Canadian Boat-Song.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Now that the wind is tamed and broken,
And day gleams over the lea,
Row, row, for the one you love
Was out on the raging sea:
Row, row, row,
Sturdy and brave o’er the treacherous wave,
Hope like a beacon before,
Row, sailor, row
Out to the sea from the shore!”
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John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Slightly misquoting Domingo Ortega, as translated by the English poet Robert Graves), in remarks during a Presidential Backgrounder before the National Foreign Policy Conference for Editors and Radio-TV Public Affairs Broadcasters (16 October 1962)]; "Presidential Backgrounder 16 October 1962 #50," Box 134, Classified Background Briefing Material Series, Pierre Salinger Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
The original poem: Bullfight critics ranked in rows
Crowd the enormous Plaza full
But only one is there who knows
And he's the man who fights the bull.
1962
“Like the watermen that row one way and look another.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“It's like winning Lotto 10 times in a row.”
Godfrey Wenness (1967)
"SMH Article 16 Feb 2007" http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/dead-luck-ewas-flight-of-fury/2007/02/16/1171405421626.html <br class="br">Discussing Ewa Wisnierska's chances of surviving being sucked 32,000 feet into a cloud.
“Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Variant: Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
“Governments steer better than they row.”
Bob Rae (1948) Canadian politician
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare-The Old Debate Is New Again, p. 98
“Hoe a row until it is done, and then hoe another one.”
Henry Schriver (1914–2011) American politician
Cows, Kids, and Co-ops