Quotes of the day, January 26
January 13
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
Erika Cosby
January 12
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
William R. Alger
January 11
We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.
Murray Kempton
January 10
When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!
Thomas Carlyle
January 9
Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
Meshell Ndegeocello
