Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Oh Very Young
Song lyrics, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974)
Source: The Coffin Club
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Oh Very Young
Song lyrics, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974)
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
Hope You Never
Lyrics, Songs and Music from "She's the One" (1996)
“I am Yali, and I would like to welcome you to Heaven. I hope you will enjoy your stay.”
Larry Niven book Dream Park
He laughed heartily, as at a private joke. “Yes, I most certainly hope you do. After all, some of you may stay forever. It is a nice place, actually, one of those infinitely rare situations where one is rewarded commensurately to one’s efforts. Surely that is Heaven by any man’s definition?”
Source: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 19, “Neck Riddles” (p. 258)
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Attributed in The Rebirth of a Nation : With a Bill of Rights for America's Third Century (1978) by Robert S. Minor, p. 10; this is a paraphrase of a statement by his father John Adams in a letter to his mother Abigail Adams (27 April 1777): "Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it".
Misattributed
Christina Dodd (1957) American writer
Source: Rules of Attraction
Richard Koch (1950) German medical historian and internist
Source: The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1999), p. 164