“Someone who knows no fear
I feel him near
The child was born to be a king…
And the time has come.”
Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist
Song lyrics, Islands (1987)
“On the laugh of a child I am borne to the joy of the King.”
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world.
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.
Pontius Pilate (-12–38 BC) was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36
“What is truth?” retorted Pilate.
John 18:37-38 NIV
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Oedipus (Line 1079?).
Oedipus Rex
Variant: I am Fortune's child,
Not man's; her mother face hath ever smiled
Above me, and my brethren of the sky,
The changing Moons, have changed me low and high.
There is my lineage true, which none shall wrest
From me; who then am I to fear this quest?
“He has forgotten you! I am a people child. I am people's child.”
Muharrem İnce (1964) Turkish politician
Arthur C. Clarke book The Fountains of Paradise
Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones — scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago — was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
Source: 1970s, The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Ch. 11 “The Silent Princess”, p. 65
“I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.”
Joycelyn Elders (1933) American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
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“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist