
Firework, written by Katy Perry, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen Sandy Wilhelm, and Ester Dean
Song lyrics, Teenage Dream (2010)
As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 409
Variants:
Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down.
As quoted in A Quote for Every Day (2011) edited by Peter A. LaPorta, p. 41
Be nice to people goin' up, because you're going to meet them all comin' down.
Be nice to 'em goin' up, because you're going to meet them all comin' down.
Firework, written by Katy Perry, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen Sandy Wilhelm, and Ester Dean
Song lyrics, Teenage Dream (2010)
Song lyrics, Modern Times (2006), Someday Baby
Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 90 “Unfurl the Sails, Speak the Names of the Stars” (p. 514)
“Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down.”
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
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Song Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road https://web.archive.org/web/20090315082451/http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Temple_Shirley/Knocked_%60Em_In_the_Old_Kent_Road_(Wot%60_Cher!)_Lyrics/72123.htm.
Moe Berg, interview in Ty Cobb (1975) by John McCallum, p. xii - <!-- Praeger Publishers -->
Context: Ty was an intellectual giant. He was the most fascinating personality I ever met in baseball. To him, a ball game wasn't a mere athletic contest. It was a knock-'em-down, crush-'em, relentless war. He was their enemy, and if they got in his way he ran right over them.
“People often ask me when am I gonna slow down. You know what I tell 'em? I'm just gettin' started.”
Spoken interlude during "Proud Mary", live at The Apollo, Manchester, 14 March 1979 ("On the Road", VHS)
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