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
January 9, 2024
QUOTE
As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.
January 8, 2024
QUOTE
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
January 7, 2024
QUOTE
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
January 6, 2024
QUOTE
If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.
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.
January 4, 2024
QUOTE
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
January 3, 2024
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The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
January 2, 2024
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The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you’re born and doesn’t stop till you sit down to write a song.
January 1, 2024
QUOTE
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It’s like the difference between being broke and being poor.
December 26, 2023
QUOTE
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there’s hardly a difference.
