Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (8 October 1952)
“There’s a day to deny and a day to decry
and a day for the man the wind at his heels!”
Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician
"The Man With The Wind At His Heels" · Video at YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWrkveqkkQk <br class="br">Book of Lightning (2007) <br class="br">Context: There’s a day to ride thumb on a thunderhead<br>There’s a day to make fantasy real<br>There’s a day to deny and a day to decry<br>and a day for the man the wind at his heels!
“The younger generation will come knocking at my door.”
Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder
Solness, Act I
The Master Builder (1892)
“Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.”
Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) British journalist
“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Machiavelli (1827)
Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian
"The Children’s Hour" in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician
Book of Lightning (2007) <br class="br">Source: "The Man With The Wind At His Heels" · Video at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozofHLXORsw
