Not really a quote of the day. Just a memorial to those killed in the vicious attacks by Anders Breivik in Norway, on July 22, 2011.
May, 2020
On May 15, 1941, US base ball great Joe DiMaggio began a record-breaking 56 game hitting streak. Seven months later, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II.
March, 2020
“This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint. Every morning and afternoon, I drink fresh mint tea sweetened with honey.”–Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
February, 2020
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. On November 19, 1863, he delivered what was probably his most famous address (speech) in Gettysburg PA. Wikipedia says that it was “one of the greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose.” Do you agree? What’s your opinon of Lincoln? As a man? As a President?
(Here’s the Gettysburg address)–
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
January, 2020
“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” Paul Cezanne
Paul Cezanne was born on 19 January, 1839. Although his style was respected by younger artists, during his lifetime his work was mocked and ridiculed by “the establishment” of French artists. In more recent times, he has come to be recognized as an important bridge between the Impressionist and the Cubist schools of art.
December, 2019
He’s right you know. MAGA. And Merry Christmas.
October, 2019
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”–Frederic Chopin.
The Polish composer, Frederic Chopin died on October 17, 1849. He was a melancholy soul, as you can see from this quotation.
September, 2019
“Falling in love is like death. They are both facts.”–Irene Papas
Greek actress Irene Papas was born on September 3, 1926, and went on to star in many classic films including The Guns of Navaronne, Zorba the Greek, Z, Antigone and The Trojan Women.
I cannot argue with what she says.
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