Ruminations
OF THE DAY
July 22, 2024
QUOTE
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
BIRTHDAYS
1925 – Joseph Sargent, Actor, director, and producer
1934 – Louise Fletcher, Actress
1947 – Albert Brooks, Actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1947 – Don Henley, Singer-songwriter and drummer
1955 – Willem Dafoe, Actor
1964 – David Spade, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor
1934 – John Dillinger, Gangster
1967 – Carl Sandburg, Poet and historian
2008 – Estelle Getty, Actress
ON THIS DAY
1598 – William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen.
1937 – The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
July 4, 2022
QUOTE
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
There is no justification for taking away individuals’ freedom in the guise of public safety.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
When the people are afraid of the government, that’s tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that’s liberty.
July 3, 2022
QUOTE
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
July 2, 2022
QUOTE
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
June 29, 2022
QUOTE
Don’t tell me what I’m not doing when I’m doing what you don’t think I’m doing!
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo.
Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.
My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids’ parties.
June 27, 2002
QUOTE
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
June 26, 2022
QUOTE
The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the moral courage to do what they will say they will do when they’re running for election.
June 25, 2022
QUOTE
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
