Quotes April 18, 2022

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron – 1934-2021 – Professional Baseball Player
 
 
 
 
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
Rachel Carson
 
 
 
 
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life–and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O’Keeffe – 1887-1986 – Artist
 
 
 
 
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.”
Sidney Poitier
 
 
 
 
“It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.”
Howard Baker
 
 
 
 
If criticism had any real power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
Fred Allen,
comedian
 
 
 
 
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
Diogenes