E. Y. Harburg Quotes

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

E. Y. Harburg

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• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Live
  • City
  • Born

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tax
  • April
  • Accounting

• I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Like
  • Holiday
  • Too Much

• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Love
  • Trees

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Kind
  • Day

• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
  • Films
  • Dancing

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Passion

• I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Made

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Benefits
  • Street
  • Trees

• Slack spread through businesses like wildfire, initially in the tech and media sectors, but now much more widely. At its public launch in February 2014, it had 17,000 users. As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7 million daily active users.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Daily
  • Media
  • April

• When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Forget

• My boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I wear a different bikini every day on holiday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Different
  • Day
  • Crazy

• During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Up
  • Holiday

• You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Free

• It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Trust
  • Training
  • Preparation

• He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

  

  James Joyce
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • World
  • May
  • War

• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Paris
  • Holiday
  • Trees