Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
And It Stoned Me
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
And It Stoned Me
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)
“Like to a stone
That rolls down a hill,
I have come to this day.”
Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) Japanese writer
A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi
Rachel Trachtenburg (1993) American musician
Rachel on more of her favorite musicians.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)
“How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another?”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Faefever
Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 596.
“If I dare to hear you
I will feel you like the sun
And grow in your direction.”
Mark Nepo (1951) American writer
“Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American pastor
As I See Religion (1932)
Variant: Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Adam Lindsay Gordon book Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
Many quoters, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), have "in our own" instead of "in your own". <br class="br">Source: "Finis Exoptatus (A metaphysical Song)" (24 November 1866), Fytte 8 of Ye Wearie Wayfarer: Hys Ballad in Eight Fyttes, as published in Sea Spray and Smoke Drift http://books.google.com/books?id=xZUuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 (1867).