Brother Theodore
(1906–2001) German-American monologuist and comedian
“The stones were dancing now. O yes, they were dancing! But it was not hopping and skipping like jigs or reels, nor was it the dismal revolving of a ballroom. Not a stone moved from its place, but they rocked and turned, slowly and with the greatest dignity, as if to say: "We are the lords of the earth and of the water. We shall stand when all has gone. We shall endure until better things come. But what can be better than we? So we shall endure forever."”
Harper of the Stones (1986).
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Dorothy Parker
(1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
Vladimir Lenin
(1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
As quoted in Speech to the First All-Russia Congress of Workers in Education and Socialist Culture, Collected Works, Vol. 29, p. 535).
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John Dryden
(1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Sylvae (London, 1685), Translation of the Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius, "Against the Fear of Death", pp. 61–62.
Matvei Zakharov
(1898–1972) Soviet military commander
Quoted in "Soviet Russia and the Middle East" - Page 46 - by Aaron S. Klieman - 1970
Book 1. This excerpt is also cited in a short story "Forever and the Earth" (1950) by Ray Bradbury.
Of Time and the River (1935)
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”
Basava
(1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism
Basava’s saying in his “The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna” quoted in The Lord of the Meeting Rivers Quotes, 23 November 2013, Goodreads.com http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3772282-the-lord-of-the-meeting-rivers-devotional-poems-of-basavanna,
John Ball (priest)
(1338–1381) English rebel and priest
Typical sermon, described in the Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and other places adjoining by Jean Froissart