December 13

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Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! ~ Anne Frank
2005
The maple tree that night
Without a wind or rain
Let go its leaves
Because its time had come.
~ Eugene McCarthy (recent death)
2006
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. ~ Kofi Annan, elected Secretary General of the United Nations on this date, in 1996.
2007
Where they burn books, they will also burn people. ~ Heinrich Heine (born 13 December 1797)
2008

[edit] Suggestions

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~ Heinrich Heine (Date of birth)

  • 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
  • 0 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  • 0 Kalki 00:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC) I was ready to give this a 4, but it appears to be a misattribution, and actually was stated by Ben Jonson.
  • 0 because this is a definite misattribution. And I love the saying so I'd know. Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and the last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. ~ Samuel Johnson (Date of death)

  • 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
  • 0. This was chosen for September 18, 2007. - InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  • 0 for reasons stated by InvisibleSun. Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. ~ Eugene McCarthy (recent death)

  • 2 Kalki 00:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 23:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC) link to date no longer strong.
  • 2 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  • 3 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

They that won't be counselled, can't be helped. ~ Benjamin Franklin

  • 1. No stated relevance for this day. InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 00:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
  • 2 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling
Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
~ Kenneth Patchen (born December 13, 1911)

Have you wondered why all the windows in heaven were
broken?
Have you seen the homeless in the grave of God's
hand?
Do you want to acquaint the larks with the fatuous
music of war?
~ Kenneth Patchen

The animal I wanted
Couldn't get into the world...
I can hear it crying
When I sit like this away from life.
~ Kenneth Patchen

O my love there are larks in our morning
And the finding flame of your hands
And the moss on the bank of the river
And the butterflies
And the whirling-mad
Butterflies!
~ Kenneth Patchen

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