“Good news!" she chirped. "The doctor says this time it's triplets!”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Kiss an Angel
Source: http://www.jugendherberge.de/en/youth-hostels/benediktbeuern%20don%20bosco205/leisure%20activities
“Good news!" she chirped. "The doctor says this time it's triplets!”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Kiss an Angel
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
“As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.”
Jonathan Swift book A Tale of a Tub
Sect. 7
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
“I've done it, be of good cheer.”
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (1598–1653) Dutch admiral
Western European nobility » Maarten Harpertsz. "Maarten" Tromp (1598-1653) https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/west-europese-adel/I157344.php Tromp's last words.
“Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Cheerfulness and good nature, purge hatred and rancour.”
Musa al-Kadhim (745–799) Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar
Muhammad Kulayni, Usul al-Kafi, vol.3, p. 162.
General
Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) American children's writer
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 27-28
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
U.S. Grant's "perfect speech" which he used on several occasions beginning in 1865, as quoted in Grant: A Biography (1982) by William S. McFeely, p. 234
1860s