— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
„We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.“
1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
Kontext: There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
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US-amerikanischer Theologe und Bürgerrechtler 1929 - 1968Ähnliche Zitate
— Jack Paar American author, radio and television comedian and talk show host 1918 - 2004
My Saber is Bent http://books.google.com/books?id=MO-mqER9TrsC&q=%22Now+that+man+can+fly+through+the+air+like+a+bird%22+%22and+swim+in+the+sea+like+a+fish+wouldn't+it+be+wonderful+if+he+could+just+walk+the+earth+like+a+man%22&pg=PA79#v=onepage (1961)
„We did not yet have laws or order. We were like children just learning to walk.“
— Pol Pot former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea 1925 - 1998
On the Democratic Kampuchea period, as reported by David Ashley (1995) and quoted in David P. Chandler, Brother Number One (1999)
Attributed
„We are like fish
In this vast sea.
And Satan fishes
For you and me.“
— Isaac Leib Peretz Yiddish language author and playwright 1852 - 1915
"Monish" (translated in J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 56.), 1888.
— Mata Amritanandamayi Hindu spiritual leader and guru 1953
Practice Spiritual Values & Save the World (2013)
— Empedocles ancient Greek philosopher -490 - -430 v.Chr
fr. 117
Variant translations:
Once on a time a youth was I, and I was a maiden/A bush, a bird, and a fish with scales that gleam in the ocean.
tr. Jane Ellen Harrison
Purifications
Original: (el) ἤδη γάρ ποτ’ ἐγὼ γενόμην κοῦρός τε κόρη τε/θάμνος τ’ οἰωνός τε καὶ ἔξαλος ἔλλοπος ἰχθύς.
Quelle: Harrison, Jane Ellen. (1903). Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. Princeton University Press. p. 590.
„Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.“
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher 1910 - 1997
Interview (17 July 1971): Cited in: Jane Goodall et al. (2005) Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
(31st January 1829) Lines to the Author after Reading the Sorrows of Rosalie
The London Literary Gazette, 1829
— Ramakrishna Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836 - 1886
Quelle: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 472
— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011
As quoted in Playboy (February 1985)
1980s
„In the case of a writer like Musil writing is often a graceful act, like a silvery fish leaping.“
— Elfriede Jelinek, buch Wonderful, Wonderful Times
p 37
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
„Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone — and to no one.“
— Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989
“Come On In”, p. 88
The Journey Home (1977)
— Boris Yeltsin 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR 1931 - 2007
As quoted in The 100 Greatest Heroes (2003) p. 60 by Harry Paul Jeffers
2000s
„But we have seen it in the air,
A fairy like a William Pear“
— Mervyn Peake English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911 - 1968
Poem O Here it is
