January 30, 2015

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945):

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

and

“When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”

and

“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”

and

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

and

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”

Barbara Tuchman (1912 – 1989):

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

Carwood Lipton (1920 -2001):

''I have trouble remembering what happened three weeks ago, but I can recall World War II almost day by day.”

and

''None of us could even think of the fact that we would be killed. If we were afraid of anything, it was that we wouldn't measure up. We wanted to be heroes, not to the American public or in books, but to each other.''

Lloyd Alexander (1924 – 2007):

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”

and

“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

and

“We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”

Richard Brautigan (1935 – 1984):

“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”

and

“I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.”

Gregory Benford (1941 - ):

“Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.”

and

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”