Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Retrospection of his own life. From this phrase, alternative names for each decades of human life are derived in Chinese.
Source: The Analects, Chapter II
Preface, In the Net of Stars, 1909
Other Quotes
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Retrospection of his own life. From this phrase, alternative names for each decades of human life are derived in Chinese.
Source: The Analects, Chapter II
“I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.”
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
Essentials to Peace (1953)
Context: I fear, in fact I am rather certain, that due to my inability to express myself with the power and penetration of the great Churchill, I have not made clear the points that assume such prominence and importance in my mind. However, I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
“When I hear Kannada, my heart leaps up and I am all ears.”
Kuvempu (1904–1994) Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker
Quoted in A Few inches of Ivory, 24 November 2013, Jstor Organization http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/23001425?uid=3738256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102981873241,
Rosie Malek-Yonan (1965) Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist
As quoted in The Crimson Field.
The Crimson Field (2005)
Henry Wilson (1812–1875) Union Army officer, Vice president, politician, historian
Source: Speech (June 1853), p. 78
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
“Star of my heart, I follow from afar.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) American poet
Star Of My Heart (1913)
Context: Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,
Where Time is not, and only dreamers are.
Star from of old, the Magi-Kings are dead
And a foolish Saxon seeks the manger-bed.
O lead me to Jehovah's child
Across this dreamland lone and wild,
Then will I speak this prayer unsaid,
And kiss his little haloed head—
"My star and I, we love thee, little child."
Robert Burns My Heart's in the Highlands
My Heart's in the Highlands, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“I followed my heart without breaking any rules.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher