Source: Beautiful Losers
“Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.”
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-man-in-the-moon-1991 of The Man in the Moon (4 October 1991)
Reviews, Four star reviews
“The stars are far from eternal, but for man they might as well be.”
Section 1, Phssthpok, Chapter 1 (p. 7)
Protector (1973)
“The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space.”
"Bright Star" (1819)
Context: Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art-
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores.
“Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.”
"The Problems of the Colored Race in the South," lecture, Hamilton Club, Chicago (10 December 1895) http://web.archive.org/20071031084051/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.4/html/93.html
Context: Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
We went into slavery a piece of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery without a language; we came out speaking the proud Anglo-Saxon tongue. We went into slavery with slave chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”
Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
