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
June 14, 2022
QUOTE
Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
June 13, 2022
QUOTE
Be yourself. Because if people don’t like you as you are, they’re not going to like you as somebody you’re trying to be.
June 12, 2022
QUOTE
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
June 11, 2022
QUOTE
Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
June 10, 2022
QUOTE
There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.
June 9, 2022
QUOTE
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
June 8, 2022
QUOTE
Nobody wants peace more than I do. Why shut me up on a reservation? We will make peace; we will keep it faithfully. But let us go around free as Americans do. Let us go wherever we please.
June 6, 2022
QUOTE
The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you’re going.
June 5, 2022
QUOTE
What else is there for the rich to do,
If not to relieve the poor of their misery?
