“Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.”
Cathy Hopkins (1953) English writer
Honolulu, Hawaii, December 4, 1991
1990s
“Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.”
Cathy Hopkins (1953) English writer
“We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.”
T.D. Jakes (1957) American bishop
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter
Miss Misery (Early version).
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)
“If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.”
Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer
Source: Don't Die, My Love
Laura Nyro (1947–1997) American musician and songwriter
"The Right To Vote"
Lyrics
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Senator Barack Obama’s speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 2018 nominating contests, as provided by Federal News Service and released in the New York Times (5 February 2008) https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html <br class="br">2008
“People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back’.”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 57
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic