“‘ The Don! The Don! The gentle Don! Our father; giver of our food! Hurrah!’”
And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)
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Dixie For The Union http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/dixie/lyrics.html#union.
1860s

“To have no food for our heads no food for our hearts, no food for our activity, is that nothing?”
Cassandra (1860)
Context: To have no food for our heads no food for our hearts, no food for our activity, is that nothing? If we have no food for the body, how do we cry out, how all the world hears of it, how all the newspapers talk of it, with a paragraph headed in great capital letters, DEATH FROM STARVATION! But suppose one were to put a paragraph in the Times, Death of Thought from Starvation, or Death of Moral Activity from Starvation, how people would stare, how they would laugh and wonder! One would think we had no heads nor hearts, by the total indifference of the public towards them. Our bodies are the only things of any consequence.

"The Angel's Story".
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)

TED Conference 2010 TED Conference http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html (2010)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 260.

While addressing a special extended party meeting at the Gonobhaban, the official residence of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh (20 May 2017). http://www.thedailystar.net/politics/bangladesh-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-speech-awami-league-politics-meeting-gono-bhaban-1408087