Born Today with Interesting Quotes- Born Today.com

"Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion."
James Harrington
(01/07/1611 – 09/11/1677)
English philosopher 

"May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not."
Millard Fillmore
(01/07/1800 – 03/08/1874)
US President (13) (see all US Presidents) 

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
Austin Phelps
(01/07/1820 – 10/13/1890)
US educator, clergy 

"Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him."
Charles Peguy
(01/07/1873 – 09/05/1914)
French philosopher 

"Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it."
Zora Neale Hurston
(01/07/1891 – 01/28/1960)
US writer 

"Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. You have no idea how hard it is for black actors, but things change, things blossom in time."
Butterfly McQueen
(01/07/1911 – 12/22/1995)
US actor 

"How long did it take six men to build a wall if three of them took a week? I recall that we spent almost as much time on this problem as the men spent on the wall."
Gerald Durrell
(01/07/1925 – 01/30/1995)
India-born English writer 

"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
Henry Arthur Jones
(09/19/1851 – 01/07/1929)
English writer 

"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search."
Nikola Tesla
(07/09 (or 07/10)/1856 – 01/07/1943)
Serbian-US inventor 

"It's primarily not an intellectual thing."
Jann Wenner
(01/07/1946 – )
US writer, editor, "Rolling Stone" founder , on rock'n'roll 

"I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!"
Katie Couric
(01/07/1957 – )
US telejournalist 

"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."
Nicolas Cage
(01/07/1964 – )
US actor (was married to Patricia Arquette, Lisa Marie Presley) 

"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."
John Berryman
(10/25/1914 – 01/07/1972)
US writer 

"One of the indictments of civilization is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."
William Feather
(08/25/1889 – 01/07/1981)
US writer 

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