“I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants.
You be the girl at the high school dance.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
You Wreck Me, written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure
“I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants.
You be the girl at the high school dance.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
You Wreck Me, written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 "War Situation" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1940/jun/18/war-situation#column_60. <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945) <br class="br">Source: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches <br class="br">Context: Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.
“Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer
Source: All That Matters (1922), p.36 - A Boy And His Dad, stanza 2.
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
“When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.”
Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress
"Trudy"
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
As "Trudy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary