Born/Died Today with Quotes- BornToday.com

"Very nice, though there are dull stretches."
Antoine de Rivarol
(06/26/1753 – 04/11/1801)
French writer , on another writer's two-line poem

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." Lord Kelvin
(06/26/1824 – 12/17/1907)
Irish scientist

"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours." Bernard Berenson
(06/26/1865 – 10/06/1959)
Lithuanian-US art critic

"I am tired of all this thing called science here....We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped." Simon Cameron
(03/08/1799 – 06/26/1889)
US Senator (PA), financier , on the Smithsonian Institution

"Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked." Pearl S. Buck
(06/26/1892 – 03/06/1973)
US writer

"Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer." Dorothy Fuldheim
(06/26/1893 – 11/03/1989)
US journalist

"Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?" Peter Lorre
(06/26/1904 – 03/23/1964)
Austrian-Hungarian actor , to Vincent Price at Bela Lugosi's funeral

"It's not enough just to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and let 'er fly." Babe Didrikson Zaharias
(06/26/1914 – 09/27/1956)
US golf great

"In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle." Colin (Henry) Wilson
(06/26/1931 – )
English writer

"Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst." Ford Madox Ford
(12/17/1873 – 06/26/1939)
English writer

"Robin's got a pretty good gig, but he's gotta get himself a lady. And he's gotta get his own gear, like some kind of cool motorcycle. I'm not talkin' just a side car here, I'm talkin' full-on hog." Chris O'Donnell
(06/26/1970 – )
US actor , on his role as Bruce Wayne's "ward" in "Batman Forever"

"All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches." Strom Thurmond
(12/05/1906 – 06/26/2003)
US senator (SC), bigot, hypocrite , in 1948