follow quotes

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 4:19.

But Jesussaid untohim,Followme; and letthe dead bury their dead.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 8:22.

And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 9:9.

Soldati, io esco da Roma. Chi vuole continuare la guerra contro lo straniero venga con me. Non posso offrigli ne¤ onori ne¤   stipendi; gli offro fame, sete, marce forzate, battaglie e morte. Chi ama la Patria me segua. Soldiers, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, follow me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages, I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

-Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Quoted in Giuseppe Guerzoni Garibaldi (1882), vol.1.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

-James, Henry
Gilbert Osmond. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.35.

The best that an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountain top where few have been, where few can follow, and where few will consent to believe that he has been.

-Kennan, George Frost
On negotiating with the Soviets. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. I see the better things, and approve; I follow the worse.

-Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317
Metamorphoses, bk.7, l.20^1 (translated by Peter Green).

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

-Schweitzer, Albert
  Von Reimarus zuWrede (translated byW Montgomery as The Quest for the HistoricalJesus,1910).

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