Quotes February 16 – 18, 2023

How proud when I see all the young women who are making and reporting the news. If I did anything to help make that happen, that is my legacy. From the bottom of my heart, to all of you with whom I have worked and who have watched and been by my side, I can say: ‘Thank you.’
Barbara Walters,
broadcast journalist, television personality
1929-2022
 
 
 
 
Get me a room at Hotel Eternity / Where Time likes to stop now and then.
Charles Simic,
poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Foundation genius award recipient, poet laureate of the US
1938-2023
 
 
 
 
I’ve never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That’s rock ‘n’ roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.
Jeff Beck,
guitarist
1944-2023
 
 
 
 
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles M. Schulz,
cartoonist
 
 
 
 
Avoid letting temper block progress — keep cool.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather,
writer, publisher
 
 
 
 
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
As you think you vibrate. As you vibrate you attract.
Abraham Hicks – American Inspirational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
The powers-that-be tried to limit me. We worked hard to get beyond the limits.
That period of dreams and civil rights taught all of us in entertainment how to find our stepping stones. It taught us how to pull others up.
Diahann Carroll,
actor, singer, activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
We all have stand-down moments that require us to stand up, in the center of ourselves, and know who we are.
Oprah Winfrey – Actress-Entrepreneur-Talk Show Host-Media Executive-Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author
 
 
 
 
Your worth is not a negotiation.
Unknown