“Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Source: Poems of Christina Rossetti
"Lewandowski exclusive, pt II: 'We're stronger now'" https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/noblmd09-fc-bayern-muenchen-robert-lewandowski-exclusive-interview.jsp (2016)
“Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Source: Poems of Christina Rossetti
“I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.”
Sandra Bullock (1964) American actress and producer
On her three step-children with husband Jesse G. James
Parade interview (2009)
Context: I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.
John Newton (1725–1807) Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer
Variant: Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
Source: Olney Hymns (1779), Amazing Grace
Sarah McLachlan (1968) Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
Sweet Surrender
Song lyrics, Surfacing (1997)
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
Neil Diamond (1941) American singer-songwriter
Sweet Caroline
Song lyrics, Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (1969)
Britney Spears (1981) American singer, dancer and actress
Diane Sawyer interview http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2003_11_23/story_1024.asp, 60 Minutes (23 November 2003)
“You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.”
Charlaine Harris book Dead as a Doornail
Source: Dead as a Doornail