
“When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.”
Source: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538
On Queenship, in an interview with the BBC during her Ruby Jubilee http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16537659 (13 January 2012).
Queenship
“When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.”
Source: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538
Quoted in Bistrup, Anne, 'Margrethe' (JP/Politikens Forlaghus (2005)).
Queenship
“Tell him your country fought a war so you wouldn't have to answer to kings and queens."”
Henry, Gregor, and Ripred, p. 217
The Underland Chronicles, Gregor the Overlander (2003)
Context: "Luxa and I do not serve food, we are royalty." "Yeah, well, I'm the warrior and Boots is a princess. And you two are going to get pretty hungry if you're waiting for me to serve you." "Tell him, boy. Tell him your country fought a war so you wouldn't have to answer to kings and queens."
“Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.”
Source: Pale Demon
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Misattributed to Confucius since at least 1985; correct origins are dubious, as mentioned in "Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life" at QuoteInvestigator.com (2 September 2014) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/02/job-love/: the oldest English-language use of the proverb has been found in Woolfolk, Ann, "Toshiko Takaezu," Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 83(5), 6 October 1982, p. 32: "Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life." (attributed to Arthur Szathmary, who attributes it, in his turn, to an unnamed source).
Misattributed, Not Chinese
Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree.