William Wirt (November 8, 1772 – February 18, 1834) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sarah Fielding – 1710 – Author
“The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”
Richard Cecil – 1748 – Clergyman
“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”
William Wirt – 1772 – Statesman
“Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.”
Bram Stoker – 1847 – Writer
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
Dorothy Day – 1897 – Activist
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
Margaret Mitchell – 1900 – Novelist
“The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.”
Martha Gellhorn – 1908 – Journalist
“Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.”
Robert Strauss – 1913 – Actor
“It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired – you quit when the gorilla is tired.”
June Havoc – 1916 – Actress
“You are all you will ever have for certain.”
Frank McGuire – 1916 – Coach
“In this country, when you finish second, no one knows your name.”
Peter Weiss – 1916 – Writer
“We’re all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don’t know the way out.”
Jerome Hines – 1921 – Musician
“Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.”
English: Gordon Ramsay portrait (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Christiaan Barnard – 1922 – Scientist
“On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.”
Patti Page – 1927 – Singer
“I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.”
Bobby Bowden – 1929 – Coach
“Don’t go to the grave with life unused.”
Morley Safer – 1931 – Journalist
“You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.”
Bonnie Raitt – 1949 – Musician
“I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.”
Kazuo Ishiguro – 1954 – Author
“When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.”
Leif Garrett – 1961 – Musician
“Stay on top of your finances. Don’t leave that up to others.”
Gordon Ramsay – 1966 – Chef
“The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.”
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