Piper Quotes - page 3

Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction. (Nathan Myhrvold)
Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, this was my daily work.... View quote
Henry David Thoreau
"Take up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd, 1967) View quote
Roger Waters
Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed. View quote
Robert Browning
You've been pretty unlucky with the weather, Mr Piper. View quote
George VI of the United Kingdom
I am a bard, and I am a harper, I am a piper, and I am a crowder. Of seven score musicians the very great enchanter. View quote
Taliesin
The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper. View quote
Eazy-E
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life? View quote
Robert Plant
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. View quote
Charles Dickens
I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. By Christ I mean not only Jesus; in other times and places, other planets, there may be other Lords of the Dance. But Jesus is the one I know of first and best. I sing of the dancing pattern in the life and words of Jesus. Whether Jesus ever leaped in Galilee to the rhythm of a pipe or drum I do not know. We are told that David danced (and as an act of worship too), so it is not impossible. The fact that many Christians have regarded dancing as a bit ungodly (in a church, at any rate) does not mean that Jesus did. The Shakers didn't... View quote
Sydney Carter