“My only regret is to die four pages too soon.”
Dennis Potter (1935–1994) English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist
Final television interview with Melvyn Bragg (5 April 1994)
1990s, Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
“My only regret is to die four pages too soon.”
Dennis Potter (1935–1994) English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist
Final television interview with Melvyn Bragg (5 April 1994)
“I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.”
Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
BBC obituary (2004)
“My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
At a King's College college feast, as quoted in 1949, John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946, Fellow and Bursar, (A memoir prepared by direction of the Council of King’s College, Cambridge University, England), Cambridge University Press, 1949, page 37. This in turn quoted in Quote Investigator, " My Only Regret Is That I Have Not Drunk More Champagne In My Life https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/11/more-champagne/", 2013-07-11 <br class="br">Attributed
“Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown shall never be uprooted.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
As quoted in Pan-Sovietism: The Issue Before America and the World, Bruce Campbell Hopper, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company (1931) p. 87
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“I have five children. There were four men, on the fifth I got weak and a woman came out.”
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
Talk at Clube Hebraica in Rio de Janeiro, on 3 April 2017. Bolsonaro: “Quilombola não serve nem para procriar” http://congressoemfoco.uol.com.br/noticias/bolsonaro-quilombola-nao-serve-nem-para-procriar/. Congresso em Foco (5 April 2017).
“I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Appearance on CBS Morning News (18 September 1985) - YouTube video http://youtube.com/watch?v=LD1DI2SntFI
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Variant: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
Letter to Hugh Walpole (21 August 1913).
Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) British evangelist
Page 8 <br class="br"> The Complete Story: A New Biography on the Apostle of Faith By Julian Wilson http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e2RWZpOHfmoC|Wigglesworth: