Goodbye Yellow Brick

Famous quotes containing the words goodbye, yellow and/or brick:

    “The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes serious and studious at six all seem to surprise their parents. It is difficult to let go of one’s image of a child, say goodbye to the child a parent knows, and get accustomed to this slightly new child inhabiting the known child’s body.”
    —Ellen Galinsky (20th century)

    “The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
    Over the grass in the West garden;
    They hurt me. I grow older.”
    —Li Po (701–762)

    “Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals—and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am not sure would ever feel this way—some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)