Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker
As quoted in "Ingmar Bergman Confides in Students" http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/08/movies/ingmar-bergman-confides-in-students.html New York Times, May 7, 1981.
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 21
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker
As quoted in "Ingmar Bergman Confides in Students" http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/08/movies/ingmar-bergman-confides-in-students.html New York Times, May 7, 1981.
Alexei Panshin book Rite of Passage
Source: Rite of Passage (1968), Chapter 18 (p. 222).
“… for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Source: The Origin of Species
“For once he was as serious as a spear through the gut.”
Glen Cook book Bleak Seasons
Source: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 66 (p. 187)
“Do you still throw spears at each other?”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Said in 2002 to an Indigenous Australian businessman, as quoted in "Prince Philip's spear 'gaffe'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1848813.stm, BBC News (1 March 2002) <br class="br">2000s
“Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism”
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879–1973) Tamil politician and social reformer
Quoted in Collected works of Thanthai Periyar E.V. Ramasami [sic http://books.google.co.in/books?id=edx4AAAAIAAJ, Volumes 1-11], p. 49. <br class="br">Rationalism
“I'll fling a spear myself and leave the rest to Zeus.”
XVII. 515 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.”
Philip Freneau (1752–1832) American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Compare: "When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield", Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.