Quotes About Cynthia Lennon

#1. Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of former Beatle John Lennon and the mother of singer Julian Lennon, died April 1 at her home in Spain. She was 75.

Anonymous

#2. John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof.

Cynthia Lennon

#3. We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going ... Concentrate on something useful.

Arnold Bennett

#4. John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

Cynthia Lennon

#5. Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

Henry David Thoreau

#6. All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

Epicurus

#7. John was at his most relaxed with Ringo, who had him in stitches with his jokes.

Cynthia Lennon

#8. I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags.

Cynthia Lennon

#9. Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Evan Esar

#10. Ringo had this habit of lighting up two cigarettes, one for Maureen at the same time that he lit his own. I remember thinking it was a loving thing to do and wishing John did it for me. But that would have been too obviously demonstrative, maybe, for John.

Cynthia Lennon

#11. Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and then. Because I was married to an Italian, I'm also pretty good at Italian food. Noel, he can cook anything, so can Julian.

Cynthia Lennon

#13. Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.

Cynthia Lennon

#14. John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.

Cynthia Lennon

#15. On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Neil Gaiman