1990s, Inaugural celebration address (1994)
Context: Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world.
Let freedom reign!
The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement!
God bless Africa!
“This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”
Song lyrics, American Pie (1971), Vincent
Context: Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
For they could not love you,
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight, on that starry starry night
You took your life as lovers often do,
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
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American Singer and songwriter 1945Related quotes
Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
“I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.”
“O scenes of the beautiful world! Never have you presented yourself to more appreciative eyes.”
Bk. 2, Ch. 4
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)
“… a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.”
Source: Genuine Lies
¿En perseguirme, mundo, qué interesas?
¿En qué te ofendo, cuando sólo intento
poner bellezas en mi entendimiento
y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas?
Sonnet 146, as translated by Edith Grossman in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works (2014)