God Gave Rock

Famous quotes containing the words god, gave and/or rock:

    “Who ordered, that their longing’s fire
    Should be, as soon as kindled, cooled?
    Who renders vain their deep desire?—
    A God, a God their severance ruled!
    And bade betwixt their shores to be
    The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “Dame Poverty gave me my name,
    And Pain godfathered me.”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.”
    —Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)