Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"The Colonies... are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother-Cities..."
James Harrington
(01/07/1611 – 09/11/1677)
English philosopher

"I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop." James Thomson
(09/11/1700 – 08/27/1748)
Scottish writer

"The Prelude to [Wagner's] 'Tristan und Isolde' reminds one of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel." Eduard Hanslick
(09/11/1825 – 08/06/1904)
Czech critic

"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows." O. Henry
(09/11/1862 – 06/05/1901)
US writer

"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician." James Jeans
(09/11/1877 – 09/16/1946)
English physicist (died near his birthday)

"I'll be sick tonight." Jack Llewelyn Davies
(09/11/1894 – 09/17/1959)
English boy (foster son of J. M. Barrie; died near his birthday) , on stuffing himself with cake and being warned by his mother he'd be sick tomorrow

"I would have loved it—without the French." D. H. Lawrence
(09/11/1895 – 03/02/1930)
English writer , on France

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you." "Bear" Bryant
(09/11/1913 – 01/26/1983)
US football coach

"I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister." Jessica Mitford
(09/11/1917 – 07/23/1996)
English writer

"Everybody said how stoic I was on the sidelines, that I didn't show any emotion. You have to understand, I was never on the play the fans were seeing. I was on the next play, or two or three plays after that." Tom Landry
(09/11/1924 – 02/12/2000)
US football coach

"For God's sake, Walter, why don't you chop off her legs and read the rings?" Carol Grace Matthau
(09/11/1925 – 07/20/2003)
US actor (was married to William Saroyan, Walter Matthau) , on her husband's repeatedly asking the age of a flirtatious starlet

"The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times per second." Brian dePalma
(09/11/1940 – )
US film director

"In the beginning there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else." Mickey Hart
(09/11/1943 – )
US drummer (Grateful Dead) (also see Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann)

"If I go 'round to someone's house and there's an Eric Clapton record, I just walk out." Jon Moss
(09/11/1957 – )
English drummer (Culture Club)

"At the time I was really flattered that the most successful artist in the world took the time out to mention me. During his gigs he has a guy dressed up as me come out so he can shoot me dead with a shotgun. It doesn't bother me, I like to think of it as my entry to the pre-school market." Moby
(09/11/1965 – )
US singer (descendent of Herman Melville) , on Eminem

"Safety's just danger, out of place." Harry Connick, Jr.
(09/11/1967 – )
US actor, singer

"If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teachings of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." Nikita Krushchev
(04/17/1894 – 09/11/1971)
Soviet leader

"I must say, if I had known at the beginning of my life that this is where I would get to, I would have said, 'Not possible. Not possible.'" Jessica Tandy
(06/07/1909 – 09/11/1994)
US actor (was married to Hume Cronyn)

"I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail too much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple. The make-up took about five hours to put on and several hours to take off." Kim Hunter
(11/12/1922 – 09/11/2002)
US actor , on wearing ape makeup

"A man never gets to this station in life without being helped, aided, shoved, pushed and prodded to do better." John Unitas
(05/07/1933 – 09/11/2002)
US football quarterback , on entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame

"I was the class clown, but I was also student body president in high school. I had my serious side—I idolized Bobby Kennedy, he was my role model. But so was Jerry Lewis." John Ritter
(09/17/1948 – 09/11/2003)
US actor (died near his birthday)

"If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in." Larry Gelbart
(02/25/1928 – 09/11/2009)
US writer