Hold fast to dream
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.”
-Langston Hughes
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938 – “Who is happier, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
-Hunter S Thompson
(more…)840 – “My mother is like the bright light in the sky, a doe on the hillsides. She is the morning star, shining even at noon-time. She is precious carnelian, a topaz from Marhaci.”
761 – Washington on the State of the World and Its Future
“On these occasions I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties—I endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must still be progressive—that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy—that the subjects of ambition & causes for hostility are daily diminishing—and in fine, that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal & free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations & horrors of war.”
–George Washington, 1st President of the United States of America
753 – “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
–Westley in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride (more…)
741 – “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
–Tyrion Lannister in George R R Martin’s A Game of Thrones
687 – James A Garfield on History
“The world’s history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian — the humble listener — there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.”
–James A Garfield, 20th President of the United States
573 – “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “
–Sarah Frances Brown [See Source Notes] (more…)
294 – “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.”
–John Augustus Shedd
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”
–Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
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183 – “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
–Salvador Dalí [Attributed]
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