Book Quote by John Burroughs

I think 'Apricot Princess' actually came out before 'Flower Boy.'

— Rex Orange County

“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

— Henry Ward Beecher

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

— Richard Whately

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

— Nirmala Srivastava

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

— Lenny Kravitz

A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great -…

— Erwin Chargaff

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

— Ambrose Bierce

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

— Questlove

I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

— Jill Sobule

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and…

— William Zinsser

I think that every record has its own life and a different sound.

— Claudio Simonetti