John Arthur Lithgow (/ˈlɪθɡoʊ/ LITH-goh; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, musician, singer, and author. Lithgow has received acclaim and many accolades in his career including two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and was also nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. Lithgow received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into American Theater Hall of Fame.
Lithgow is well known for his television roles as Dick Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun and Arthur Mitchell in Dexter as well as for his roles in films Obsession, Blow Out, The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Footloose, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Harry and the Hendersons, Raising Cain, Cliffhanger, The Pelican Brief, Shrek, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Kinsey, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Homesman, Love Is Strange and Interstellar.
John T. Lithgow (died after 1907) was the acting Commissioner of Yukon from January to May 1907. Earlier he had served as Controller of the Currency for Yukon, in 1898 to at least 1904. He was a member of the Conservative party.
John Lancelot Lithgow (13 July 1933 – 1 March 2004) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party who later joined ACT.
Lithgow was born in Wanganui in 1933. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and Lincoln University.
He represented the Palmerston North electorate in Parliament from 1975, when he defeated the incumbent Joe Walding by 148 votes. At the 1978 election, Joe Walding won back the electorate for Labour.
After having worked hard for his constituency, Lithgow left Palmerston North two months after the 1978 election for Auckland, where he found employment. He later moved to Wanganui, where he became a Wanganui city councillor. In the 1996 election, he stood for ACT in the Whanganui electorate.
Lithgow died on 1 March 2004.
Some people talk to each other
While others talk to their cats
Some people talk to their mothers
While others talk through their hats
I communicate with nature
With a plant, a leaf, a tree
And I'm always nice to a flower
For they're absolutely perfect to me
I always say, 'Hello', to a flower
'Hello, hello, hello'
I totally ignore the crashing bore
Who lives next door
For his conversation's silly
Yet I never snub a lily
I always say, 'Bonjour', to a lilac
'Bonjour, bonjour, bonjour'
I'm absolutely mute
With a bully in a suit
And I never talk to fruit
Heaven knows
But I always say hello to a rose
Yes, I always wave at the window box
If the box is filled with hollyhocks
And I speak to the daisies
I think they are swell
Tell your secrets to a daisy
She'll never tell
I always say, 'Hello', to a snow ball
'Hello, hello there, hello'
Look sideways at a stranger
And you put your life in danger
But one can kiss a sweet bouquet
A blushing bride has tossed away
Flowers are the sweetest things I know
So when I see a flower I say, 'Hello'
Hiya, Cynth
I never shrink away from a violet, oh, no
No, I say hello
I may be off my rocker
But I never pet a cocker
Yet the dogwood in the park
Will never ever bark
I'm always glad to see a gladiola
I'm just mad about the glad
You can stand next to a bush
And never feel one push
Flowers are refined and polite
You know I have never seen a Pansy fight
Yes, I talk to bees
And I talk to birds
But they leave me quite
At a loss for words
And I never touch a cat
While it sleeps on a pillow
But I positively trust
A pussy willow
I always say, 'Hello', to a flower
'Hello, hello, hello'
Get friendly with a mouse
And he'll hang around your house
But flowers never overstay
They stay a day, then fade away
Flowers are the sweetest things I know
So when I see a flower I say, 'Hello'