Quotations About / On: FOREVER

  • 41.
    And forever, brother, hail and farewell.
    [Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.]
    (Catullus [Gaius Valerius Catullus] (84-54 B.C.), Roman poet. Carmina, no. 101, l. 10.)
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  • 42.
    Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
    Wringing the handlebar for speed,
    Wild to be wreckage forever.
    (James Dickey (b. 1923), U.S. poet. Cherrylog Road (l. 106-108). CP-Dick. The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 [James Dickey]. (1992) Wesleyan University Press.)
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  • 43.
    ... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.
    (Edna O'Brien (b. c. 1932), Irish author; relocated to England. Mother Ireland, ch. 7 (1976).)
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  • 44.
    I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.
    (Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. First published in 1934. Belacqua, in More Pricks than Kicks, p. 29, Grove Press (1970).)
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  • 45.
    Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut—a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
    (Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970), Polish-born U.S. author. "How I Found America," pt. 3, Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (1920). Anzia Yezierska, born in Russian Poland, emigrated to the United States at age seventeen.)
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  • 46.
    And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
    (Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Berenice, in Berenice, act 4, sc. 5 (1670). Berenice is being forced to leave Titus forever.)
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  • 47.
    Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
    (Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), U.S. president. Ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 13 volumes, New York (1938-1950). FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt's public addresses), side 5, annual message to Congress (Jan. 4, 1939), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). FDR appeals for national unity in the face of crises at home and abroad.)
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  • 48.
    What chemistry!
    That the winds are really not infectious,
    That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which
    is so amorous after me,
    That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its
    tongues,

    That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited
    themselves in it,
    That all is clean forever and forever,
    (Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. This Compost (l. 31-36). . . The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.)
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  • 49.
    Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
    (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. annual message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 5, p. 537, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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  • 50.
    Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation.... We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
    (Simon Schama (b. 1945), British historian. "Afterword," Dead Certainties (1991).)
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