“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“He was laughing again. What was it about Bird that made him do that?”
Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) American children's writer
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 73
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Of Garrulity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“No one's laughing at God —
We're all laughing with God.”
Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist
"Laughing With"
Far (2009)
“She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Halldór Laxness book Kristnihald undir Jökli (bók)
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)
“Bird and beast and stone and star — we are all one, all one —”
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
Source: Mary Poppins (1934), Ch. 10 "Full-Moon"
Context: "Bird and beast and stone and star — we are all one, all one —" murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children.
"Child and serpent, star and stone — all one."