"Make your parents proud, your enemies jealous, and yourself happy” is a popular saying that evolved on Twitter. “Make your parents proud, and if you can’t do that, at least make yourself happy” was advice given to a college freshman in a 2006 book. “Make your parents proud but make sure you make yourself happy!!!” was cited on Twitter on October 8, 2009. “i have made my parents proud and my enemies jealous” was cited on Twitter on June 27, 2011.
“She had made her parents proud, her friends happy and her enemies jealous” was cited in a 2012 book. “Make your parents proud, your enemies jealous and most importantly make yourself happy” was cited on Twitter on July 21, 2014.
Google Books
Buzzard Love:
A Detour on the Road to Psychic Stardom
By Gehla Knight
Lincoln, NE: iUniverse
2006
Pg. 145:
The mentor’s advice to the gawky freshman was still fresh in Bradley’s mind: Make your parents proud, and if you can’t do that, at least make yourself happy.
Twitter
DreStarr
@DreStarr
Make your parents proud but make sure you make yourself happy!!!~Gym Class Heroes [Hell yeah to that! ~Me]
9:01 PM - 8 Oct 2009
Twitter
ميثاء.
@Maithalyst
Start showering me with gifts people,i have made my parents proud and my enemies jealous ˘⌣˘..Cash would be excellent!
5:57 AM - 27 Jun 2011
Twitter
Willy
@ShantelaWilly
Make yourself happy. Make your parents proud.
12:58 AM - 23 Nov 2011
Google Books
Of Pebbles & Pearls ... Life and Its Curls
By Kinshuk Verma
Mumbai: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
She had made her parents proud, her friends happy and her enemies jealous.
Twitter
poison
@mehraelle
Make your parents proud, your enemies jealous and most importantly make yourself happy
12:15 PM - 21 Jul 2014
Twitter
AngeL Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
@DarlingAngel319
make your parents proud, make your enemies jealous, make your haters angry and make yourself happy.
#BeStrongLoisaAndalio
5:23 AM - 4 Aug 2014
Twitter
Nicki Minaj
@jazsarae
Make your family proud
Your enemies jealous
And yourself happy
7:42 AM - 6 Aug 2014
Facebook
Fwonte
August 11, 2015
Make your parents proud, your enemies jealous, and yourself happy!
Twitter
PINOY QUOTES
@PINOY_QUOTES
Make your parents proud, your enemies jealous, and yourself happy.
4:20 AM - 1 Oct 2015
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
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“You can’t leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution” (6/1)
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“You simply cannot leave those who created the problem in chare of the solution!” (6/1)
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“Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier…” (6/1)
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“You can’t just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution” (6/1)
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Entry in progress—BP (6/1)
More new entries...
Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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