Rudyard Kipling Quotes on Identity
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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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Father, Mother, and Me, Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And every one else is They.
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We and They, st. 1
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Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be, And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!
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When next he came to me he was drunk - royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
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Back to the Army again, sergeant, Back to the Army again: Out o' the cold an' the rain, sergeant, Out o' the cold an' the rain.
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They change their skies above them, But not their hearts that roam!
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'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse - soldier an' sailor too.