September 8, 2014

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

Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967):

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

and

“For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.”

Sid Caesar (1922 – 2014):

“In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”

Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980):

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!”

Michael Frayn (1933 - ):

“Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums”

Jack Prelutsky (1940 - ):

“A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.”

Bernie Sanders (1941 - ):

“The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in a way that protects American freedom.”

Ann Beattie (1947 - ):

“Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.”

Jon Scieszka (1954 - ):

“Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.”