Charles Reade – 1814 – Novelist
“Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.”
Frank Lloyd Wright – 1867 – Architect
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
Leroy Neiman – 1921 – Artist
“The businessman says, ‘If I don’t do it first, somebody else will.’ The artist says, ‘If I don’t do it first, nobody else will.'”
Barbara Bush – 1925 – Wife of President George H. W. Bush
“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.”
Jerry Stiller – 1927 Comedian
“Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.”
Joan Rivers – 1933 – Actress
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.”
Nancy Sinatra – 1940 – Musician
“I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don’t give them a lot of credence.”
Karen Kingsbury – 1963 – Novelist
“You don’t have love without sacrifice; you can’t have sacrifice without love.”
Julianna Marguiles – 1966 – Actress
“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone’s day.”
- The George H. W. Bush family (l-r front row – Neil Bush, Marvin Bush, Jeb Bush; back row – Doro Bush, George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, George H. W. Bush), early 1960s Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library HS525 (source) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kanye West – 1977 – Rapper
“I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.”
Robert Anthony – 1982 – Athlete
“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re about average.”