“The sweetest flowers in all the world—
A baby's hands.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Étude Réaliste.
Undated
Source: The Ruby Circle
“The sweetest flowers in all the world—
A baby's hands.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Étude Réaliste.
Undated
John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright
The Queen of Corinth (1647), Act III, sc. ii. Compare: "Weep no more, Lady! weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain; For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again", Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, "The Friar of Orders Gray".
Jack Judge (1878–1938) British song-writer and music-hall entertainer
Song It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Mary Butts (1890–1937) Novelist
The Water Lily, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.”
David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd
Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
Vivian Vande Velde (1951) American writer
Source: Cloaked in Red
Bertie Ahern (1951) Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
Straight answers needed to taxing Bertie questions http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/fionnan-sheahan/straight-answers-needed-to-taxing-bertie-questions-1277938.html Irish Independent, 2008-01-31.
Gene Vincent (1935–1971) American musician
"Be-Bop-A-Lula" (1956); though Vincent composed the tune and sang the song, by his accounts, the lyrics to this were written by Donald Graves (the credit for which he sold to Bill "Sheriff Tex" Davis). · Town Hall Party (1958) at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDU9FP5_B2M <br class="br">Misattributed
““You could call it that,” Auberson sighed. It wouldn’t be correct, but you could call it that.”
David Gerrold book When HARLIE Was One
Section 7 (p. 32)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)