“Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun.
But Mama, that's where the fun is …”
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Blinded by the Light"
Song lyrics, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun."”
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2 : My Folks, p. 13.
Context: Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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American folklorist, novelist, short story writer 1891–1960Related quotes
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Sam Cooke (1931–1964) American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur
Summertime
Song lyrics, Sam Cooke (1957)
“The children of the sun, the children of their sun — oh, how beautiful they were!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), III
Context: The children of the sun, the children of their sun — oh, how beautiful they were! Never had I seen on our own earth such beauty in mankind. Only perhaps in our children, in their earliest years, one might find, some remote faint reflection of this beauty. The eyes of these happy people shone with a clear brightness. Their faces were radiant with the light of reason and fullness of a serenity that comes of perfect understanding, but those faces were gay; in their words and voices there was a note of childlike joy. Oh, from the first moment, from the first glance at them, I understood it all! It was the earth untarnished by the Fall; on it lived people who had not sinned. They lived just in such a paradise as that in which, according to all the legends of mankind, our first parents lived before they sinned; the only difference was that all this earth was the same paradise. These people, laughing joyfully, thronged round me and caressed me; they took me home with them, and each of them tried to reassure me. Oh, they asked me no questions, but they seemed, I fancied, to know everything without asking, and they wanted to make haste to smoothe away the signs of suffering from my face.
“My Mama would never have to work another day of her life.”
Deion Sanders (1967) All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive back, cornerback, wide receiver
speech at Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony A quote repeatedly said during Sanders' Hall of Fame speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmZc1zb32n4 (8 August 2011)
Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
On realizing that she had passed out of the slavery states into the northern states
Modernized rendition: I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)
Garth Brooks (1962) American country music artist
Papa Loved Mama, written by Kim Williams and G. Brooks.
Song lyrics, Ropin' the Wind (1991)
“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days
Source: Book of a Thousand Days
“The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn,”
Sri Aurobindo book Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Savitri (1918-1950), Book Three : The Book of the Divine Mother
Context: I saw the Omnipotent's flaming pioneers
Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life
Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth;
Forerunners of a divine multitude,
Out of the paths of the morning star they came
Into the little room of mortal life.
I saw them cross the twilight of an age,
The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn,
The great creators with wide brows of calm,
The massive barrier-breakers of the world
And wrestlers with destiny in her lists of will,
The labourers in the quarries of the gods,
The messengers of the Incommunicable,
The architects of immortality.