A contralto Marian Anderson em 1920. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher – 1879 – Author
“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
H. L. Hunt – 1889 – Businessman (Haroldson Lafayette Hunt)
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
Marian Anderson – 1902 – Musician
“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”
Red Barber – 1908 – Sportscaster (Walter Lanier Barber)
“When I’m talking to a large audience, I imagine that I’m talking to a single person.”
Andre Norton – 1912 – Writer
“Victory belongs to the most perservering.”
Hal Holbrook – 1925 – Actor
“I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline – I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.”
Graham Hill – 1929 – Athlete
“I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.”
Ruth Rendell – 1930 – Writer
Red Barber, sportscaster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“While most of the things you’ve worried about have never happened, it’s a different story with the things you haven’t worried about. They are the ones that happen.”
Fay Godwin – 1931 – Photographer
“I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.”
Jim Brown – 1936 – Athlete and Actor
“Tell you what you got to do to compete. What you got to do to compete is compete.”
George Miller – 1950 – Comedian
“The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.”
Michael Jordan – 1963 – Athlete
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
Denise Richards – 1972 – Actress
“There are always two or three or four sides to every story.”
Paris Hilton – 1981- Socialite
“Having a nightclub in your house really helps for having a party, because then you don’t need to go out.”
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