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Who Shares Your Day and What Did They Say? This is a collection of thought-provoking quotations for each day of the year by people who share YOUR birthday!

March 14

on March 14, 2013
English: Thomas Marshall in his senate office ...

English: Thomas Marshall in his senate office while serving as vice president of the United States between 1912 and 1920 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Arthur O’Shaughnessy – 1844 – Poet

“We are the music makers.  We are the dreamers of the dream.”

Thomas R. Marshall – 1854 – Vice President of the United States

“Once there were two brothers:  one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President – and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.”

Albert Einstein – 1879 – Scientist

“A question that drives me hazy:  am I or are the others crazy?”

Lee Petty – 1913 – Celebrity

“I figure you get out of life just about what you put into it.”

Bill Owen – 1914 – Actor

“Give a man a beer, waste an hour.  Teach a man to brew, waste a lifetime!”

Hank Ketchum – 1920 – Cartoonist

“Flattery is like chewing gum.  Enjoy it but don’t swallow it.”

Diane Arbus – 1923 – Photographer

“A photograph is a secret about a secret.  The more it tells you the less you know.”

Michael Caine – 1933 – Actor

“Be like a duck.  Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”

Quincy Jones – 1933 – Composer

“Every day, my daddy told me the same thing.  ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done.  Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.'”

Gene Cernan – 1934 – Astronaut

“The moon is bland in color.  I call it shades of gray.  You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time.  And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.”

Eleanor Bron – 1934 – Actress

Apollo17 - Gene Cernan

Apollo17 – Gene Cernan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Both men and women are fallible.  The difference is, women know it.”

Jasper Carrott – 1945 – Comedian

“Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.”

Billy Crystal – 1947 – Comedian

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

Jerry Greenfield – 1951 – Businessman

“If you support the community, they will support you.”

Tad Williams – 1957 – Writer

“We tell lies when we are afraid … afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.  But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”


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