“Ooh, he's here again,
The man with the child in his eyes.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“Ooh, he's here again,
The man with the child in his eyes.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
John Angell James (1785–1859) British abolitionist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 115.
“He brings man's freedom in his hands”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Innkeeper's wife
A Child is Born (1942)
Context: He brings man's freedom in his hands,
Not as a coin that may be spent or lost
But as a living fire within the heart,
Never quite quenched — because he brings to all,
The thought, the wish, the dream of brotherhood,
Never and never to be wholly lost,
The water and the bread of the oppressed,
The stay and succor of the resolute,
The harness of the valiant and the brave,
The new word that has changed the shaken world.
And, though he die, his word shall grow like wheat
And every time a child is born,
In pain and love and freedom hardly won,
Born and gone forth to help and aid mankind,
There will be women with a right to say
"Gloria, gloria in excelsis deo!
A child is born!"
Louis Nizer (1902–1994) American lawyer
Between You and Me, Beechurst Press, 1948.
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
This quote was actually composed by Louis Nizer, and published in his book, Between You and Me (1948).
Misattributed
Variant: He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
“He's a man with a plan,
Got a counterfeit dollar in his hand,
He's misstra know-it-all.”
Stevie Wonder (1950) American musician
He's Misstra Know-It-All
Song lyrics, Innervisions (1973)
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
The Great Queen is Amused.
High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories (1982)
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
Source: Complete Poems of Stephen Crane