January 31, 2015

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

Zane Grey (1872 – 1939):

“Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seem good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.”

Eddie Cantor (1892 – 1964):

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”

and

“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.”

John O’Hara (1905 – 1970):

“They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”

Alan Lomax (1915 – 2002):

“The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes ... but in the everyday folds who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies.”

Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968):

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

and

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”

Jackie Robinson (1919 – 1972):

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

and

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... all I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

and

"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."

Norman Mailer (1923 – 2007):

“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”

and

“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”

Justin Timberlake (1981 - ):

“If you can answer the question of why you’re doing it, it’s the right thing to do.”