“More people worship the rising than the setting sun.”
Pompey (-106–-48 BC) Roman general
Spoken by a young Pompey to the Dictator Sulla to get Sulla to award him a triumph
Life of Pompey
“Cricket to us, like you, was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.”
Poem Pride of the Village (1925)
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“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Pompey
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
David Foot (1929) Canadian economist
Cricket's Unholy Trinity (1985)
Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892) English Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal
Source: Towards Evening (1889), p. 144.
Sticky Wickets (1950), ASIN: B0000CHN1L
Runs and Catches: an autobiography (1980), ISBN: 9780571115655.
“People here worship the sun." "Yes, but my people worship the God who made the sun.”
Gilbert Morris (1929–2016) American writer
Source: Till Shiloh Comes
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The devil in the hills (1949), Chapter 7, p. 311