Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
"The Preacher and the Slave" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave (1911)
“Work and pray,
Live on hay.
You’ll get pie
In the sky
When you die—
It’s a lie!”
“Bread Overhead” (p. 121); originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1958; alluding to the song The Preacher and the Slave.
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
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Live on hay.
You’ll get pie
In the sky
When you die—
It’s a lie!" by Fritz Leiber?
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Eric Wolf (1923–1999) American anthropologist
Preface (1997), p. x.
Europe and the People Without History, 1982
Robert Louis Stevenson book Underwoods
Bk. I, Requiem (the final sentence was used on Stevenson's Gravestone).
Underwoods (1887)
Context: Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
“If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Pelagea Vlasova in Scene 10
The Mother (1930)
“Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.”
Bill Shankly (1913–1981) Scottish footballer and manager
Attributed to Shankly in 2013, thirty years after Shankly's death. However, very similar sayings are found anonymously from the late twentieth-century. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: http://www.empireofthekop.com/2013/07/26/liverpool-should-aim-for-epl-title-and-possibly-finish-in-the-top-four-by-liverpool_red1/ <br class="br">Source: Harrington and Kavanagh, Prayer for Parish Groups: Preparing and Leading Prayer for Group Meetings https://books.google.com/books?id=tnpYzxOSsDoC&pg=PT120&dq=%22Aim+for+the+sky%22+ceiling&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAGoVChMIoszvpuGkyAIVyD6ICh0pVwwm#v=onepage&q=%22Aim%20for%20the%20sky%22%20ceiling&f=false, p. 32, 1998
Immortal Technique (1978) American rapper and activist
The Point of No Return
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)