
“We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass”
Barack Obama: "Remarks Prior to Departure from Accra, Ghana," July 11, 2009. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=86393&st=&st1=
2009
“We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass”
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
Fairy Tales (1835)
Source: The Story of a Mother
1890s, Speech at the Abolitionist Reunion in Boston (1890)
On her considering a future run for the office of President of the United States, November 10, 2008 http://alaskareport.com/news1108/x61753_palin_2012.htm
2014
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
“I love all of the african americans like they are my children.”
"African american" seems an ananchronistic term here, as the term was seldom used before the 1970s.
Disputed
I Still Miss Someone, written by Johnny Cash and Roy Cash
Song lyrics, The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958)
"The Man in the Drawer", in Rembrandt's Hat (1973); cited from Selected Stories (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985) p. 225