August 15, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Walter Scott (1771 – 1832):

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”

and

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.”

and

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

Thomas de Quincey (1785 – 1859):

“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.”

E. Nesbit (1858 – 1924):

“There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.”

Edna Ferber (1885 – 1968):

“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”

and

“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”

Julia Child (1912 – 2004):

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

and

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”

and

“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”

Robert Bolt (1924 – 1995):

“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.”

Stephen Breyer (1938 - ):

“The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic values from one generation to the next, must play the major role in maintaining public confidence in the Court's decisions, the Court too must help maintain public acceptance of its own legitimacy. It can do this best by helping ensure that the Constitution remains "workable" in a broad sense of the term. Specifically, it can and should interpret the Constitution in a way that works for the people of today.”

Maxine Waters (1938 - ):

“I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.”

Linda Ellerbee (1944 - ):

“If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.”

and

“I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can”

Stieg Larsson (1954 – 2004):

“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”

and

“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”

Lady Miss Kier (1963 - ):

“Just de-lovely and delicious.”