![]() ![]() If it doesn’t, it was never yours to begin with. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever. If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. Lair read the short texts and made comments at the beginning of the class. For each class meeting a student was supposed to write “some comment, question or feeling” on a three inch by five inch card and place it on a table in the front of the classroom. Lair was a teacher, and he asked his students to create small writing samples. The earliest known evidence for a version of this saying appeared in a book titled “I Ain’t Much Baby-But I’m All I’ve Got” by Jess Lair that was privately published in 1969. ![]() Quote Investigator: QI has found no substantiation that Richard Bach created or used the phrases above. Could you tell me where this expression came from? But I cannot find this saying in his novels. The statement immediately above was attributed to Richard Bach who wrote the enormously popular inspirationally work “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” in the 1970s. If they come back they’re yours if they don’t they never were. If it returns, it’s yours if it doesn’t, it wasn’t. Recently, I heard more elaborate quotations that included the above statement: Richard Bach? Jess Lair? Anonymous student? Sting? Peter Max? Chantal Sicile?ĭear Quote Investigator: On his first solo album in 1985 the musician Sting released a song called: ![]()
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