December 18, 2014

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

Sia Furler (1975 - ):

“Be my friend

Hold me, wrap me up

Unfold me

I am small and needy

Warm me up

And breathe me”

Brad Pitt (1963 - ):

“Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.”

Steven Spielberg (1946 - ):

“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.”

and

“Through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. But you can’t get everybody to interpret the result in the same Way. And that’s thrilling to know – that everybody will see it differently.”

Steve Biko (1946 – 1977):

“The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

and

“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”

Ossie Davis (1917 – 2005):

“We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands upon the plow. It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it's important for you to do what you can do.”

Alfred Bester (1913 – 1987):

“The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.”

and

“If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.”

Saki (1870 – 1916):

“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”