“The vendors shrilled their wares as if the lard, coal, tortillas, or candies they were selling were the last of their kind. Their cries, as they blended together, were like bird calls, as if the city were a gigantic aviary.”
Source: The Children of Eve' series of novels (historical fiction), The City of Palaces (2014), p.82
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Source: Hoffa The Real Story (1975), Chapter 2, How It All Started, p. 28
“The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.”
Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/86920.Buchi_Emechet.
“If we were to hang the last capitalist, another would appear to sell us the rope.”
A variant of the above misquote, sometimes also attributed to Lenin. This gained popularity during the glasnost era when black market activity was at its most visible in the USSR; meant to show the profit motive was human nature and cannot be eradicated.
Misattributed
“If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, it would be Christmas everyday.”
Dismissing a question on the wisdom of cutting funding to homeland security. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-beecroft/if-ifs-and-buts-were-cand_b_4084118.html
2010s
When asked about Alice in Chains - Howard Stern Show, June 2007 ** Chris Cornell on Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, Alice in Chains, Nirvana and Kurt Cobain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQzyZfhutYk,
Solo career Era
"A Match", line 1.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)
Context: If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Blown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pasture or gray grief;
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf.
