Quotes for the Week

Published 3:00 am Tuesday, March 19, 2024

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

— Aristotle

“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.”

— Billie Holiday

“After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.”

— Christian Dior

“In our house, dinner is synonymous with family time. Recently, it has felt like the best chance for all of us to really connect — something that I find myself wanting more of as my kids are getting older.”

— Joanna Gaines

“I tell young people — including my granddaughter — there is no shortcut in life. You have to take it one step at a time and work hard. And you have to give back.”

— Hank Aaron

“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.”

— Johnny Cash

“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.”

— Keith Richards

“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”

— Marie Curie

“When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.”

— Nadine Velazquez

“A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.”

— Oleg Cassini

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

— Plutarch

“I was born in Puerto Rico — I used to sit in the sun until I looked like a piece of bacon. It’s a wonder now that I don’t look like an old wallet. I’m a very fortunate person.”

— Rita Moreno

“A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I’m doing. It’s not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it’s just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it’s hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun.”

— Simone Biles

“When you go into a game, and there’s something that was drawn up the way it was supposed to be drawn up, and you missed the throw or the catch, as a receiver, it’s something where you feel bad about that. You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play.”

— Patrick Mahomes

“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”

— Pope John Paul II

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”

— Harriet Tubman

“I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.”

— George Carlin

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