June 22, 2014

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

H. Rider Haggard (1856 – 1925):

“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”

Erich Maria Remarque (1898 – 1970):

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

and

“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”

Octavia Butler (1947 – 2006):

“All that you touch

You Change.

All that you Change

Changes you.

The only lasting truth

is Change.”

and

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”

and

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.  That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”

Elizabeth Warren (1949 - ):

“You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.”

and

“If you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to jail….Evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night.”

and

“Nobody’s safe. Health insurance? That didn’t protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.”

Green Gartside (1955 - ):

“Hard times, sucker MC's

Jay’s Game, thirty days

Wake up Hollis Crew

Rock Box, it's like that

I love you still, I always will”