“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”
Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams
Emelina, Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”
Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams
Emelina, Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
Fairyland
Lyrics, (Miss)Understood
“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Last words, quoted in Hugh Pearsons (1994) The Shadow of the Panther, p. 315
“Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Remember, l. 13-14.
Source: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology
“Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Source: At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965. https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/prince-philip-quotes-63435/
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Variant: It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
Source: The Death of the Moth and Other Essays