What's your favorite quote/poem/lyric?

[Scorpia]

My signature.

 

The whole poem:

 

The Final Inspection

 

The soldier stood and faced God,

Which must always come to pass,

He hoped his shoes were shining,

Just as brightly as his brass.

 

"Step forward now, you soldier,

How shall I deal with you?

Have you always turned the other cheek?

To My Church have you been true?"

 

The soldier squared his shoulders and

said, "No, Lord, I guess I ain't,

Because those of us who carry guns,

Can't always be a saint.

 

I've had to work most Sundays,

And at times my talk was tough,

And sometimes I've been violent,

Because the world is awfully rough.

 

But, I never took a penny

That wasn't mine to keep...

Though I worked a lot of overtime

When the bills got just too steep,

 

And I never passed a cry for help,

Though at times I shook with fear,

And sometimes, God forgive me,

I've wept unmanly tears.

 

I know I don't deserve a place

Among the people here,

They never wanted me around,

Except to calm their fears.

 

If you've a place for me here, Lord,

It needn't be so grand,

I never expected or had too much,

But if you don't, I'll understand."

 

There was a silence all around the throne,

Where the saints had often trod,

As the soldier waited quietly,

For the judgment of his God.

 

"Step forward now, you soldier,

You've borne your burdens well,

Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,

You've done your time in Hell."

 

To all that serve.

[Binky The Rabbit]

^ Man, that was powerful.

 

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Pretty much the whole of 'Who Needs The Peace Corps' by Zappa.

 

 

"What's there to live for?

Who needs the peace corps?

 

Think I'll just DROP OUT

I'll go to Frisco

Buy a wig & sleep

On Owsley's floor

 

Walked past the wig store

Danced at the Fillmore

I'm completely stoned

I'm hippy & I'm trippy

I'm a gypsy on my own

I'll stay a week & get the crabs &

Take a bus back home

I'm really just a phony

But forgive me

'Cause I'm stoned

 

Every town must have a place

Where phony hippies meet

Psychedelic dungeons

Popping up every street

GO TO SAN FRANCISCO

 

How I love ya, How I love ya

How I love ya, How I love ya Frisco!

How I love ya, How I love ya

How I love ya, How I love ya

(Oh, my hair is getting good in the back!)

Every town must have a place

Where phony hippies meet

Psychedelic dungeons

Popping up on every street

GO TO SAN FRANCISCO...

 

(Hotcha!)

 

First I'll buy some beads

And then perhaps a leather band

To go around my head

Some feathers and bells

And a book of Indian lore

I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce

How to get to Height Street

And smoke an awful lot of dope

 

I will wander around barefoot

You know I'll have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times

I will love everyone

I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street

I will sleep...

I will go to a house.

That's, that's what I will do

I will go to a house

Where there's a rock roll band

Because the groups all live together

(HERE'S JOHNNY)

I will stay

I will join a rock & roll band

I'll be their road manager

And I will stay there with them

And I will get the crabs

But I won't care"

 

[Vapymid]

@Kyou - that was strangely beautiful... Thank you. By a some inexplicable association in my mind it reminded me of this song:

 

Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet

A sweetheart left behind

Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas

That's where my true love lies

 

Look for me when the sun-bright swallow

Sings upon the birch bough high

But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils

All a'chew on your bones so dry

 

But when the sun breaks

To no more bulletin battle-cry

Then will you make a grave

For I will be home then

 

I will be home then

I will be home then

I will be home then

Then

 

When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee

Made a seam to hem me in

There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless

Got my heart right pierced by a pin

 

But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas

All the bellies and the bones and the bile

Though I lingered here with the blankets barren

And my own belly big with a child

 

But when the sun breaks

To no more bulletin battle-cry

Then will you make a grave

For I will be home then

 

I will be home then

I will be home then

I will be home then

 

Stems and bones and stone walls too

Could keep me from you

Scaly skin is all too few

To keep me from you

 

But oh, my love, though our bodies may be parted

Though our skin may not touch skin

Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow

I will come on the breath of the wind

 

Songwriters

COLIN MELOY

 

 

03eo0asomyM

 

 

Regards

[AP_Pastor]

I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street

 

FREEZE HIPPY!

That line always get me every time I hear that song, especially the Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life version.

 

Wide River To Cross - Levon Helm

 

There's a sorrow in the wind

Blowing down the road I've been

I can hear it cry while shadows steal the sun

 

But I cannot look back now

I've come too far to turn around

And there's still a race ahead that I must run

 

I'm only halfway home, I've gotta journey on

To where I'll find, find the things I have lost

I've come a long long road but still I've got some miles to go

I've got a wide, a wide river to cross

 

I have stumbled, I have strayed

You can trace the tracks I made

All across the memories my heart recalls

But I'm still a refugee, won't you say a prayer for me?

'Cause sometimes even the strongest soldier falls

 

I'm only halfway home, I've gotta journey on

To where I'll find, I'll find the things I have lost

I've come a long long road but still I've got some miles to go

I've got a wide, a wide river to cross

 

I'm only halfway home, I've gotta journey on

To where I'll find, I'll find the things that I have lost

I've come a long long road but still I've got some miles to go

I've got a wide, a wide river to cross

I've got a wide, a wide river to cross

 

I salute this veteran for his moving rendition of that song:

 

smzzOPSDV1E

 

[ScottD.Betson]

My favourite quote, I have a few and they are from movies so please forgive me on the multiples:

"Say Hello to MY Little Friend!!!!"

"I'm Going to make him an offer he cant refuse."

[Zaraki]

"Your song is not ours."

[Blightmare]

I know I posted about it before already but i wanted to just post the part of it that hit me the hardest.

 

From the poem To This Day:

 

 

"but I want to tell them

that all of this shit

is just debris

leftover when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought

we used to be

and if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself

get a better mirror

look a little closer

stare a little longer

because there’s something inside you

that made you keep trying

despite everyone who told you to quit

you built a cast around your broken heart

and signed it yourself

you signed it

“they were wrong”

because maybe you didn’t belong to a group or a click

maybe they decided to pick you last for basketball or everything

maybe you used to bring bruises and broken teeth

to show and tell but never told

because how can you hold your ground

if everyone around you wants to bury you beneath it

you have to believe that they were wrong

 

they have to be wrong

 

why else would we still be here?

we grew up learning to cheer on the underdog

because we see ourselves in them

we stem from a root planted in the belief

that we are not what we were called we are not abandoned cars stalled out and sitting empty on a highway

and if in some way we are

don’t worry

we only got out to walk and get gas

we are graduating members from the class of

fuck off we made it

not the faded echoes of voices crying out

names will never hurt me

 

of course

they did

 

but our lives will only ever always

continue to be

a balancing act

that has less to do with pain

and more to do with beauty."

 

 

http://www.tothisdayproject.com/the_poem.html

[AP_Pastor]

"Away from me, cold-blooded woman. Your thirst is not mine"

Fountain of Salmacis - Genesis

[Zaraki]

"Imperfection is perfection in itself and vice versa."

[Meelis13]

few great RWBY quotes

"Great, gangs all here, now we can die together"- Yang Xiao Long

"We aren't looking for an underground crime organization, we're looking for an UNDERGROUND CRIME ORGANIZATION!"- doctor Bartholomew Oobleck (when he discovered group they were looking for is right underneath the streets)

*on edge of roof, where Pyrrha took Jaune to enjoy the view, without her noticing that they are right on edge* Jaune: "Pyrrha I know I'm going through a tough time, but I'm not that depressed; I could always be a farmer or something..."

[Binky The Rabbit]

^ Your signature, Meelis.

[Meelis13]

^ Your signature, Meelis.

haha, thanks

i love SG1 because quotes like this.

[Selfsurprise]

"God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but just keeps trying new ideas" ~ Pablo Picasso

[Woah_G!]

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

 

-Aristotle

[Meelis13]

"You dont understand- Edgar is the one in the hole!"- Ryan "Mad King" Haywood

[Selfsurprise]

"When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, 'At least the handle is one of us'." - Turkish Proverb

[ScottD.Betson]

"You dont understand- Edgar is the one in the hole!"- James Ryan "Mad King" Haywood

You Sonofabitch Ryan, bullshit, theres no way thats really Edar, YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!, I let Edgar out in the middle of the video and he got him back, YOU SICK BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

o7ABSsu-ACM I got what Meelis was talking about because I watch the roosterteeth lets plays of minecraft and love Ryans avatar (Scottish Steve), but I think people may need a quick summary of where that quote is from so here we go

 

OT: "I'll Be Back *Smashes into Helicopter*" - Arnold Schwarzenegger

[Meelis13]

"You dont understand- Edgar is the one in the hole!"- James Ryan "Mad King" Haywood

You Sonofabitch Ryan, bullshit, theres no way thats really Edar, YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!, I let Edgar out in the middle of the video and he got him back, YOU SICK BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

o7ABSsu-ACM I got what Meelis was talking about because I watch the roosterteeth lets plays of minecraft and love Ryans avatar (Scottish Steve), but I think people may need a quick summary of where that quote is from so here we go

 

OT: "I'll Be Back *Smashes into Helicopter*" - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hehe

well, its good quote even if you dont know the context (as context doesnt make it more sane)

But here is full video with backstory as well:

0fMtg__MrWk

[ScottD.Betson]

"You dont understand- Edgar is the one in the hole!"- James Ryan "Mad King" Haywood

You Sonofabitch Ryan, bullshit, theres no way thats really Edar, YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!, I let Edgar out in the middle of the video and he got him back, YOU SICK BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

o7ABSsu-ACM I got what Meelis was talking about because I watch the roosterteeth lets plays of minecraft and love Ryans avatar (Scottish Steve), but I think people may need a quick summary of where that quote is from so here we go

 

OT: "I'll Be Back *Smashes into Helicopter*" - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hehe

well, its good quote even if you dont know the context (as context doesnt make it more sane)

But here is full video with backstory as well:

0fMtg__MrWk

Meelis having some sort of context is better than jumping into a movie thats a sequel and not knowing if you know you have seen the last one and if you know if the series sucks or not, its just like jumping into a ocean of assholes dick first, you dont know where its been and you dont want to

[Reverend_UshankaCat_]

"[...] its just like jumping into a ocean of assholes dick first, you dont know where its been and you dont want to"

-Scott D. Betson, 2016