Today is the birthday of the following people:
Walter Dean Myers (1937 – 2014):
“Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.”
and
“Reading is not optional.”
Robert Southey (1774 – 1843):
“No distance of place or lapse
of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each
other's worth.”
and
“The loss of a friend is like
that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be
repaired.”
Edith Hamilton (1867 – 1963):
“Love cannot live where there
is no trust.”
and
“It has always seemed strange
to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid
on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds
to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be
educated."
Radclyffe Hall (1880 – 1943):
“What a terrible thing could be
freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free
when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out
of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.”
Erwin Schrödinger (1887 –
1961):
“The task is...not so much to
see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about
that which everybody sees.”
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