Born/Died Today- with Quotes- born Today.com

"I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do."
Tsar Nicholas I
(06/25/1796 – 02/18/1855)
Russian ruler

"There are mighty few people who think what they think they think." Robert Henri
(06/25/1865 – 07/12/1929)
US artist

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." Ernest Benn
(06/25/1875 – 01/17/1954)

English publisher

"Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind." Margaret Oliphant Oliphant
(04/04/1828 – 06/25/1897)
Scottish writer

"There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop." George Orwell
(06/25/1903 – 01/21/1950)
English writer

"Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze." Aime Cesaire
(06/25/1913 – 04/17/2008)
Martinique writer

"A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes." Dorothy Gilman
(06/25/1923 – )
US writer

"There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors." Sidney Lumet
(06/25/1924 – 04/9/2011 )
US director

"Basically, he just wasn't willing to dress up like Louis XIV before we went to bed every night. I really demand that of a partner." Carly Simon
(06/25/1945 – )
US singer , on why she divorced James Taylor

"The most popular labor-saving device is still money." Phyllis George
(06/25/1949 – )
US beauty queen, "personality"

"English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas." Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
(06/13/1875 – 06/25/1961)
US Governor (TX) , misattributed but I like it

"I find myself sympathizing with the Americans. Why should they buy this rubbish? Even we aren't buying it in any great numbers." George Michael
(06/25/1963 – )
English singer (Wham!)

"Oh, yeah, I'm drinkin' again, it's always the same
That same old story
After the kicks there's little old mixed-up me
Tryin' to lose a dream that used to be" Johnny Mercer
(11/18/1909 – 06/25/1976)
US songwriter

"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on." Jacques Cousteau
(06/11/1910 – 06/25/1997)
French oceanographer

"It's great to be alive. A lot of folks aren't, you know." Lester Maddox
(09/30/1915 – 06/25/2003)
US governor (GA)

"I always felt that the National Enquirer was as invasive and malignant as cancer; but now I realize that it just runs a close second." Farrah Fawcett(-Majors)
(02/02/1947 – 06/25/2009)
US actor

"I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily." Michael Jackson
(08/29/1958 – 06/25/2009)
US singer, dancer, songwriter, baby-dangler...