„I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.“
— Frank Buckles United States Army soldier and centenarian 1901 - 2011
Joking on joining the Army at age 15.
CNN March 8, 2008.
„May I fall as rain to increase
The harvests that must feed living beings
And in ages of dire famine
May I myself serve as food and drink.“
Bodhicaryavatara
Übernommen aus Wikiquote. Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
Shantideva
indischer Königssohn 685 - 763Ähnliche Zitate
„Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.“
— Socrates classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470 - -399 v.Chr
Plutarch Moralia, How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
Variant translation: Base men live to eat and drink, and good men eat and drink to live.
Plutarch
„If I must fall, may it be from a high place.“
— Paulo Coelho, buch By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Quelle: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
— Plutarch ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46 - 127
How a Young Man ought to hear Poems, 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„I shall sacrifice myself that Lebanon may live.“
— Youssef Bey Karam Lebanese rebel 1823 - 1889
As quoted in "The Maronites and Lebanon, A Brief History" at Phoenicia.org http://phoenicia.org/maronites.html
— George Henry Lewes British philosopher 1817 - 1878
Vol. 1, p. 2
The Foundations of a Creed (1874-5)
— Cory Booker 35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress 1969
[Fallon, Kevin, Cory Booker Rescues a Freezing Dog & 9 Other Things He Has Saved, https://www.thedailybeast.com/cory-booker-rescues-a-freezing-dog-and-9-other-things-he-has-saved?ref=scroll, 21 August 2018, The Daily Beast, January 26, 2013]
Via Twitter, in response to a tweet asking "Why is there a family today that is ‘too poor’ to afford breakfast?" Booker would go on to do exactly that. He later told CBS that it had been a "terrible state of human existence", and continued "I'll be honest with you. I take so much for granted, even going to Starbucks and buying a cup of coffee is more than my daily food allowance right now," as quoted in [Bailey, Holly, Cory Booker’s week on food stamps: political ambition amid the burned sweet potatoes, https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/ticket/cory-booker-week-food-stamps-political-ambition-amid-101008142--election.html, 21 August 2018, Yahoo! News, December 11, 2012]
2012
„But if the rain must fall…It won't matter much to me
If I had you
And all I need is your love.“
— James Morrison English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984
If The Rain Must Fall
Song lyrics, Undiscovered (James Morrison album) (2006)
„Harry: (On being called a self-hating Jew) Hey, I may hate myself, but not because I'm Jewish.“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
„I think there really is a place for science in literature and I think that may be increasing“
— Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941
— John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England 1642 - 1710
B. v. Knight and Burton (1699), 1 Raym. 527.
— Muhammad Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam 570 - 632
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 436
Sunni Hadith
— John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963
Remarks Recorded for the Opening of a USIA Transmitter at Greenville, North Carolina (8 February 1963) Audio at JFK Library (01:29 - 01:40) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHA-161-010.aspx · Text of speech at The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9551
1963
Variante: A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
