seat quotes

Before you save the world, you've got to save your seat.

-Anonymous
  On the needfor legislators to keep in close touch with their constituents. Quoted in the NewYork Times, 2  Jan.

He did not seem to care which way he travelled providing he was in the driver's seat.

-Baron
  Of Lloyd George. The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George, ch.7.

And it cameto pass, when hemade mention of thearkof God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 4:18.

Edina! Scotia's darling seat, All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once beneath a monarch's feet Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs.

- Robert Burns
  'Address to Edinburgh', stanza1.

With eyes up-raised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sate retired, And from her wild sequestered seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Poured thro'the mellow horn her pensive soul.

-William Collins
  'The Passions,  An Ode for Music', l.57^61.

The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  'The Name and Nature of Poetry', Lecture at Cambridge, 9 May.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!

- Herman Mankiewicz
  Bette Davis as Margo Channing in  All  About Eve.

Nature that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Of Cynthia's seat, the airy region thrilling, Now was almost won To think her part was done, And that her reign had here its last fulfilling; She knew such harmonyalone Could hold all heaven and earth in happier unio'  n.

-John Milton
  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza10.

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, opening lines.

For who can yet believe, though after loss, That all these puissant legions, whose exile Hath emptied heav'n, shall fail to reascend Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.631^4.

There is a place (If ancient and prophetic fame in heav'n Err not) another world, the happy seat Of some new race called Man.

-John Milton
  Beelzebub. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.345^8.

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; Foreverynight attea-timeand before youtakeyourseat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.30,'The Lamplighter', stanza1.

Love, that doth reign and live within my thought, And built his seat within my captive breast, Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought, Oft in my face he doth his banner rest.

- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
  'Love, that doth reign'.