Eshtine

"Burn, baby, burn."

60s Black Panther slogan

"LOOK AT THE SKY TURN A HELLFIRE RED, LORD
SOMEBODY'S HOUSE IS BURNIN'
DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN

SISTERS AND BROTHERS DADDIES MOTHERS STANDIN' AROUND CRYIN'
WHEN I REACHED THE SCENE THE FLAMES WERE MAKING A GHOSTLY WHINE
SO I STOOD ON MY HORSE'S BACK AND I SCREAMED WITHOUT A WHACK
I SAY OH BABY WHY DID YOU BURN YOU BROTHER'S HOUSE DOWN?

WELL SOMEONE STEPPED FROM THE CROWD
HE MAS NINETEEN MILES HIGH
HE SHOUTS WE'RE TIRED AND DISGUSTED
SO WE PAINT RED THROUGH THE SKY

I SAY THE TRUTH IS STRAIGHT AHEAD
SO DON'T BURN YOU SELF INSTEAD
TRY TO LEARN INSTEAD OF BURN
HEAR WHAT I SAY
YEAH YEAH

SO I FINALLY RODE AWAY
BUT I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY
CAUSE WHEN I REACHED THE VALLEY
I LOOKED WAY DOWN 'CROSS THE WAY
A GIANT BOAT FROM SPACE
LANDED WITH EERIE GRACE
AND CAME AND TAKE ALL THE DEAD AWAY"

excerpts from Jimi Hendrix song on Electric Ladyland album, released Sept. 1968

"Do cats eat bats?"
--One of Alice's thoughts while falling down the rabbit hole.

"Your hair wants cutting."
--The Mad Hatter to Alice, at the Mad Tea Party

She asks me why...I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night; Hair that's a fright.
I'm hairy high and low,
Don't ask me why; don't know!
It's not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead; darling

Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there, hair!
Shoulder length, longer (hair!)
Here baby, there mama, Everywhere daddy daddy

CHORUS:
Hair! (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
Flow it, Show it;
Long as God can grow it, My Hair!

Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas, a hive for bees
A nest for birds, there ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder of my

CHORUS

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy, shining
Gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted; Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied!

O-oh, Say can you see; my eyes if you can,
Then my hair's too short!
Down to here, down to there,
Down to where, down to there;
It stops by itself!
doo doo doo doo doot-doot doo doo doot

They'll be ga-ga at the go-go
when they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond, brilliantined, Biblical hair
My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son
Why don't my Mother love me?

--Lyrics from "Hair", the american tribal love-rock musical.

First they came for the Trade-unionists, and I didn't stand up because I wasn't a Trade-unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't stand up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't stand up because I was Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was noone left to stand up.
-- Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Look outside the window, a woman's being grabbed
they're dragging her to the bushes, and now she's being stabbed.
Perhaps someone should call the cops, and try to ease her pain
But Monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game.
"Outside a Small Circle of Friends" -- Phil Ochs

The Protestants hate the Catholics
The Catholics hate the Protestants
The Muslims hate the Hindus
And everybody hates the Jews
"National Brotherhood Week" - Tom Lehrer

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
what I was walling in or walling out
and to whom I was like to give offense

Something there is that doesn't love a wall
that wants it down
I could say elves, but its not elves exactly
and I'd rather he'd say it for himself.

-- Robert Frost, Mending Walls

Prig offered Pig first chance at dessert
so Pig reached out and speared the bigger piece.
"Now that" cried Prig, "was extremely rude of you"
Pig, with his mouthful said, "wha' wha' woul' 'ou do?"
"I'd have taken the littler bit," said Prig.
"Stop Kvetching then, that's what you've got" said Pig.

So virtue is its own reward you see
and that is all its ever going to be.
--Howard Nemerov

Imagination is intelligence with an erection -- Victor Hugo

Violets are blue
Roses are red
Violets are blue
And I love my loves.
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables - 1860

(I know your question, and I don't know the answer. I haven't been able to *find* anything earlier...but thats not proof.)

Another fun aspect of this, Angela, since many of us know each other's writings, is trying to guess who the person is from the quotes, before you see the name at the bottom of the post.

I'm not sure Id have suspected it was you if it werent your journal, unless you had moved the U2 quote up higher.

Jane on the other hand I was quite sure of, even on the second post, I knew she had posted twice in a row before I saw her name.

By the grace of God it was easy for me to forget the world as soon as I left it. I never wanted to go back. However, I often wanted to go to some other monastery. This was what is known as a "temptation."
- Thomas Merton

She came from Planet Claire.
I knew she came from there.
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light.
Some say she's from Mars
or one of the seven stars
that shine after three-thirty in the morning.
Well, she isn't.
-the B-52s

Batter my heart, three person'd God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn and make me new.....
Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
-John Donne

Them biscuits ain't fit to eat.
-my grandmother

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, › la chandelle,
Assise aupr»s du feu, d»vidant et filant,
Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous »merveillant:
¥Ronsard me c»l»brait du temps que j'»tais belle!�
-Pierre de Ronsard
(Yeah, I know it's in French, but it is *so* in my head.)

A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book ...
-The Beatles

a) ...the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.
b)...who made there, by his one oblation of himself once offered....
c)...the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable...
d) it is meet and right so to do.
-all from the (old!) Book of Common Prayer

it will flame out like shining from shook foil;
it gathers to a greatness like the ooze of oil
crushed.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver

Death is a crass, crude, vulgar, and materialistic problem. It needs a crass, crude, vulgar, and materialistic solution.
-Peter Kreeft

He went deeper into black, deeper into white
He saw the stars shine like nails in the night
-U2

Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh.
-the TV

Let me try some quotes in English:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost-'Stopping By Woods...'

For oft', when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude.
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
Wordsworth-'The Daffodils'

There are more things on earth, Horatio,
That you ever dreamt of.
'Hamlet' (approx. quote)

We are all but stardust
And our life is surrounded with a little sleep.
Shakespeare (a quote from my best friend on my birthday!)

There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen

Midnight is when the day begins.
U2-'Lemon'

Hey girl,
Don't point your finger at me.
I'm just a rat in the maze, like you
And only the dead go free.
Roger Waters-'The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking'

Ever tried?
Ever failed?
Never mind!
Try again!
Fail again!
Fail better!
Samuel Beckett

"I'm so tired of being alone/
I'm so tired of being alone/
won't you help me girl/
as soon as you can?"

Al Green

"Out, out, damn spot!"

Shakespeare to his dog...

...let me just whip this out...

Blazing Saddles

oh, and one more, (for now)...

"They just wanna, they just wanna/
Oh, girls, girls just wanna have fun!

Cindi Lauper

"The legend is found
From the Chippewa on down
Of the great lake they call Gitcheegoomee.
And the lake it is said
Never gives up its dead
When the skies of November grow gloomy."
---Gordon Lightfoot, the Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald

"You can checkout, but you can never leave."---The Eagles, Hotel Colifornia

"The Colonel's dead, the gatling's jammed, the colors have fallen twice..." Kipling, don't remember the poem.....

"She doth shine in the night like a jewel on an Ethiope's ear." Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

"Sic transit gloria mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world)" St. Augustine

SOME FAMILY FAVORITES.....

"Generally speaking, monkeys are not good at playing poker." Dan B.

"We'll burn that bridge when we cross it" John B.

"Stupid gets you killed." Mike B.

"Musicians don't have to make sense. They're musicians." Dave B.

"Its better to have back-up and not need it, than need back-up and not have it." Chris B.

Oh I won't go to Macy's anymore, more, more
There's a big fat policeman at the door,door,door
He will pull me by the collar
And he'll make me pay a dollar
So I won't go to Macy's anymore, more, more

learned this when I was a little kid and try as I may I just can't seem to forget it..LOL