January 5, 2024
QUOTE
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well George, that’s more nearly your size.’ And he told me.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
--All from George Washington Carver
BIRTHDAYS
1779 – Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer
1914 – George Reeves, Actor and director
1917 – Jane Wyman, Actress
1931 – Robert Duvall, Actor and director
1961 – Iris DeMent, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN MEMORY
1066 – Edward the Confessor, English king
1922 – Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer
1933 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States
1943 – George Washington Carver, Botanist, educator, and inventor
2014 – Carmen Zapata, American actress
IN ON THIS DAY
1781 – Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold
1895 – French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
1957 – In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
1972 – US President Richard Nixon announces the Space Shuttle program