"The National Anthem"
Lyrics, Kid A (2000)
Interview for Sounds Magazine on 17 July 1982. [Armed Combat, Sounds Magazine, 17 July 1982]
“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“She says we've got to hold on to what we've got”
Livin' On A Prayer
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)
“Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.”
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Odysseus, Book VIII, line 560
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
“Everyone should die with someone holding onto them.”
Maia Roberts, to Bat Velasquez, pg. 227
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
“Holding on too long is just a fear of letting go.”
"...Like Clockwork", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
Variant: Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Source: The Power of One
