Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad, you will leave Oxford by the next town drain."
Rev. William A. Spooner
(07/22/1844 – 08/29/1930)
English religious lesdyxic

"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." Edward Hopper
(07/22/1882 – 05/15/1967)
US artist

"Who's Virginia?" Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
(07/22/1890 – 01/22/1995)
US royalty (was married to Joseph P., mother of John, Robert, and Teddy Kennedy) , on why Ted lived in Virginia while his wife lived in Boston

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways." Stephen Vincent Benet
(07/22/1898 – 03/13/1943)
US writer

"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six." Alexander Calder
(07/22/1898 – 11/11/1976)
US sculptor

"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away." Edward Dahlberg
(07/22/1900 – 02/28/1977)
US writer

"Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him." Amy Vanderbilt
(07/22/1908 – 12/27/1974)
US etiquette maven

"The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the U. S. Senate." Bob Dole
(07/22/1923 – )
US senator (KS), presidential candidate Illustration by Zach Trenholm

"I train religiously." Sister Madonna Buder
(07/22/1930 – )
US nun and triathlete , on how she manages to stay fit at 70

"If little else, the brain is an educational toy." Tom Robbins
(07/22/1936 – )
US Writer Photo courtesy Carl Studna

"The singer gets the pussy." George Clinton
(07/22/1940 – )
US Singer, funk legend

"I've led a pretty clean life so I've aged pretty well." Bobby Sherman
(07/22/1945 – )
US singer, actor, policeman

"Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch." Albert Brooks
(07/22/1947 – )
US actor, writer

"Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin." Willem Dafoe
(07/22/1955 – )
US actor (Portrait by Taru Sterling)

"Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid." John Leguizamo
(07/22/1964 – )
Colombian comic, actor

"I just couldn't have gone into a room where Chris was in a box." David Spade
(07/22/1964 – )
US comic actor (SNL) , on missing Chris Farley's funeral

"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it." Carl Sandburg
(01/06/1878 – 07/22/1967)
US writer

"If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice." Estelle Getty
(07/25/1924 – 07/22/2008)
US actor (died near her birthday)