rescue quotes

To love is to be a fish. My boat wallows in the sea. You who are free, rescue the dead.

- David Ignatow
  Rescue the Dead,'Rescue the Dead'.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.

-June Jordan
  Keynote address for Child Welfare League of  America. Collected as'Old Stories: New Lives' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

The rescuers had to rescue themselves.

-Time
  On the ill-fated helicopter attempt to free the hostages held in Iran. 5 May.

Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!

-Crayencour
  Qui n'a pas son Minotaure?, pt.3.