
“Who would have planted the cane, run the mills and funded the colony if they had gone to battle?”
Poppy Drive speech, 21 October 2005.
Hugger-Mugger
“Who would have planted the cane, run the mills and funded the colony if they had gone to battle?”
Poppy Drive speech, 21 October 2005.
On the fate of his friend Lion Nordheim, who was executed ten days before the end of the war, and his own release at around the same time, p. 52
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
Context: On the day we were caught, Lion and I had been talking about writing a memorandum on the fate of the Jewish war children living in hiding or among Dutch families … we were the representatives of the Zionist youth organization. … Lion who had been taking notes of the discussion, put these papers in his jacket pocket when he took a break from lunch. When the Germans caught us they discovered his notes. If those papers had been in my pocket I would have never lived to be seventy. I have led a strange life, a set of complete coincidences.
"Main Street"
Main Street and Other Poems (1917)
Context: God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.
Some folks call it a Silver Sword, and some a Pearly Crown,
But the only thing I think it is, is Main Street, Heaventown.
“I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen.”
As quoted in "I never asked for power" in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
Context: I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
Christopher Lloyd Interview http://www.startrek.com/article/christopher-lloyd-interview (October 22, 2010)
Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
After learning Odissi dance, she toured all over the world performing Odissi dance and then settled in Switzerland but came back to establish a dance school. Quoted in in "I have been a hippie all my life".
“I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”