rod quotes

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

- Maya originally MayaJohnson Angelou
  Television interview, 21 Nov. Collected in Conversations with Maya  Angelou (1989).

The rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Numbers17:8.

   The L ismy shepherd; Ishall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valleyof theshadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the L for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 23:1^6.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs13:24.

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the L shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDIsaiah11:1^2.

And heshall rulethemwith a rod of iron; asthevessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 2:27.

Does the eagle know what's in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the mole? Can wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl.

-William Blake
  Thel's Motto. The Book of  Thel.

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child.

- Samuel Butler
  Hudibras, pt.2, canto1, l.843^4.

Throw away thy rod, Throw away thy wrath: O my God, Take the gentle path.

- George Herbert
'Discipline', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.

- Alexander Pope
  An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.247^8.

The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want. He makes me down to lie In pastures green: he leadeth me the quiet waters by. My soul he doth restore again: and me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, ev'n for his own name's sake. Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear no ill: For thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still.

-Scottish Metrical Psalms
  Translation of Psalm 23:1^4.

As fattening is the first duty of fashionable female life, it must be duly enforced by the rod if necessary. I got up a bit of flirtation with missy, and induced her to rise and shake hands with me. Her face was lovely, but her body was as round as a ball.

-John Hanning Speke
  In Karagwe, west of LakeVictoria, among the Galla people. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.