“How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
"How?"”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Lyrics, Imagine (1971 album)
Give In To Me
Dangerous (1991)
“How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
"How?"”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Lyrics, Imagine (1971 album)
“Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.”
Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby
Variant: Don't you give me no rotten tomato," Dexter sang, "just 'cause to your crazy shit I
cannot relate-o.
Source: This Lullaby
Marge Piercy (1936) American novelist and poet
"If they come in the night", in The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing (1978); reprinted in Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir (2002).
“I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.”
Source: Second Chance
Miles Davis (1926–1991) American jazz musician
As quoted in Jazz-Rock Fusion: The People, The Music, p. 40
1970s
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath