#forerunner

And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#gibran #kahlil #death

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#because #forerunner #i #lyrics #me

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#church #council #daybreak #forerunner #light

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#both #colonies #counties #each #forerunner

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#horror #order #perfect

Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#bradley #complete #complete freedom #deadline #forerunner