“Now, when you pass my way
I guess I'll smile and say
To think that boy was mine
Once upon a time”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) English singer and record producer
"Once Upon a Time", written by Springfield
Lyrics, Ooooooweeee!!! (1965)
“"Once more, my gallant boys!" he cried:
"Three times! — you know the fable, —
(I'll make it thirty," muttered he,
"But I will lay the cable!")”
"How Cyrus Laid the Cable".
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“What must it be like, to have a boy like you so much he cries for you?”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Harry Hill (1964) English comedian, doctor
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Variant: You know, he burned his first ever pair of shoes, because when he was a kid, the Earth was still hot. Thats how old he is!
“I'm not the boy that I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be.”
Nice and Blue.
A→B Life (2002)
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines
But there was never to be a next time.
Source: Reminiscences (1964), p. 361
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
As quoted in the Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, touching Matters of the Church (Foxe's Book of Martyrs) by John Foxe; variant: I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the scripture than thou doest.
Context: I defie the Pope and all his lawes. If God spare my life, ere many yeares I wyl cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture, than he doust.
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
30,000 Pounds of Bananas
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
Julian of Norwich book Revelations of Divine Love
Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 3
Context: When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day. And after this I languored forth two days and two nights, and on the third night I weened oftentimes to have passed; and so weened they that were with me.
And being in youth as yet, I thought it great sorrow to die; — but for nothing that was in earth that meliked to live for, nor for no pain that I had fear of: for I trusted in God of His mercy. But it was to have lived that I might have loved God better, and longer time, that I might have the more knowing and loving of God in bliss of Heaven. For methought all the time that I had lived here so little and so short in regard of that endless bliss, — I thought nothing.