December 31, 2014

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

Alexander Smith (1830 – 1867):

“Love is the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

and

“To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”

and

“We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.”

Simon Wiesenthal (1908 – 2005):

“Violence is like a weed--it does not die even in the greatest drought.”

and

“Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.”

John Denver (1943 – 1997):

“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.”

and

“Peace is a conscious choice.”

and

“Who cares what tomorrow shall bring

I can't be contented with yesterday's glory

I can't live on promises winter to spring

Today is my moment and now is my story

I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing”

Connie Willis (1945 - ):

“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

Paul Westerberg (1959 - ):

"Live without your touch

I'll die within your reach"

and

"The ones we love the best are the ones we lay to rest

And visit their graves on holidays at best

The ones we love the least are the ones we die to please

If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them"

and

"And she's kind of like a poet

Who finds it hard to speak

Poems come so slowly

Like the colors down a sheet"

Junot Díaz (1968 - ):

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”

and

“The half-life of love is forever.”

and

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

and

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”