“I love you,
A bushel and a peck,
A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.
Hug around the neck and a barrel and a heap,
Barrel and a heap and I'm talking in my sleep.”
Song A Bushel and a Peck.
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Frank Loesser7
American songwriter 1910–1969Related quotes
James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) American journalist
Contentment, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Kip McKean (1954) minister
During his sermon ' Malachi: God’s Radical Demand for Remaining Radical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ66eagYdUc' at the Manila World Leadership Conference, Aug 94
“The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“With this kind of baggage around your neck, you will choke your job-hunting opportunities”
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.25
Context: Employers are not going to hire a candidate who is stressed by cashflow and family problems. With this kind of baggage around your neck, you will choke your job-hunting opportunities.
