
“Life is so difficult to catch.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
calls the Once-ler.
He lets something fall.
"It's a Truffula Seed.
It's the last one of all!
You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds.
And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care.
Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.
Then the Lorax
and all of his friends
may come back."
The Lorax (1971)
“Life is so difficult to catch.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it.”
Mi culpa marcha tan lenta que siempre la alcanzan el perdón y el olvido.
Falsificaciones (1977)
“Fetch me my seven-league boots so I can catch the children.”
Tales of Mother Goose, 1727, "Little Thumb"
“So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot”
Knives Out
Lyrics, Amnesiac (2001)
“Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
Source: Farming: a hand book
“Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.”
Address to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois. (21 July 1952); published in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952)
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
As quoted in Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy (1994), p. 201.
Attributions
“I'll catch you angel, i'll always catch you.”
Source: Reflected in You