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.”
