
“It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends”
Tracey Takes On... (1996–99)
“It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends”
“I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.”
On her three step-children with husband Jesse G. James
Parade interview (2009)
Context: I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.
Source: At his 82nd birthday party, as quoted in "Uncle Miltie's Birthday Bash" by the Associated Press, The Journal-News (July 13, 1990), p. 3
"No More Mr. Nice Guy" (co-written with Michael Owen Bruce) - Full lyrics online http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3596 - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZnhuOEUFXA.
Billion Dollar Babies (1973)
Context: I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing
'Til they got a hold of me.
I opened doors for little old ladies,
I helped the blind to see.
I got no friends 'cause they read the papers.
They can't be seen with me and I'm gettin' real shot down
And I'm feeling mean. No more Mister Nice Guy,
No more Mister Clean,
No more Mister Nice Guy,
They say he's sick, he's obscene.
Other Days, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”
Source: Collected Stories