February 8, 2015

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

Samuel Butler (1612 – 1680):

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”

and

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

and

“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”

Kate Chopin (1850 – 1904):

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”

and

“The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.”

Jules Verne (1828 – 1905):

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”

and

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”

Martin Buber (1878 – 1965):

“The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.”

and

“We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911 – 1979):

“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.”

and

“Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)”

James Dean (1931 – 1955):

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.”

Joe Raposo (1937 – 1989):

The main songwriter for Sesame Street, who wrote the theme song, and songs such as "Bein' Green"

"It's not that easy bein' green;

Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.

When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold-

or something much more colorful like that.

It's not easy bein' green.

It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.

And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water-

or stars in the sky.

But green's the color of Spring.

And green can be cool and friendly-like.

And green can be big like an mountain, or important like a river, or tall like a tree.

When green is all there is to be

It could make you wonder why, but why wonder? Why Wonder, I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful!

And I think it's what I want to be."