“When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier…”
Young British Soldier, Stanza 9.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936Related quotes
“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
Variant: You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
Source: One Day
Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Friends front in front of me
Fuckin' wannabes
In your ear
But they don't know Eamon”
"Get off My Dick!"
Lyrics, I Don't Want You Back (2004)
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 4
Archive of American Television http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/george-carlin, from one of Carlin's final interviews (2008)
Interviews, Television Appearances
Context: You know what, I said it this way: when you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks. And I'm a notebook kind of guy: [pretends to be taking notes] "Oh, my God, did you see that? Did you see what he just did?..." And I watch the freak show, and I kept my notes, and I make up stuff about it, and I talk about the freaks. And the freaks are all humans, and they are all like me, and we are all the same. I'm not better, I'm not different, I'm just apart now. I'm separate, I'm over here, because I put myself out of the mix. I don't have a stake at the outcome. I'm not a cheerleader for a given outcome now.
“I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front.”
Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street (aired 12 December 1987)
Context: I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.