“Will you still need me,
will you still feed me,
when I'm sixty-four?”
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
"When I'm Sixty-Four" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Bucky Katt's Big Book of fun, page 125
Bucky Katt, Satchel Pooch
“Will you still need me,
will you still feed me,
when I'm sixty-four?”
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
"When I'm Sixty-Four" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Toby Keith (1961) American country music singer and actor
How Do You Like Me Now?!, written with Chuck Cannon
Song lyrics, How Do You Like Me Now?! (1999)
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur.
Variant: If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
“If you were to kill me now right here,
I would still look you in the eye”
Suzanne Vega (1959) American singer
In the Eye
Suzanne Vega (1985)
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Dedication" (1945), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz
Rescue (1945)
Nguyễn Công Hoan (1903–1977)
Dead End (or Impasse, 1938), as quoted in Understanding Vietnam by Neil L. Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), p. 159
“I am yours. If you feed me garbage,
I will sing a song of garbage.
This is a hymn.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
"Pig Song" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21982 <br class="br">Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)