Quotes July 15, 2025

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead,
cultural anthropologist
 
 
 
 
I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some. I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed.
Val Kilmer,
actor
1959-2025
 
 
 
 
“No matter what you call it, music is as good as it sounds. Music is an oral art. Until you hear it, it is not music, and if it sounds good, it is good.”
Duke Ellington
 
 
 
 
“One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.”
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
Rachel Carson
 
 
 
 
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile.”
Alan Shepard
 
 
 
 
“Each and every one of you has the power, the will, and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live.”
Harry Belafonte
 
 
 
 
“The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.”
Sigmund Freud
 
 
 
 
“No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.”
Doris Day
 
 
 
 
“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his [or her] goals.”
Dorothy Height
 
 
 
 
“God forbid that I should live as an Emperor without an Empire. As my city falls, I will fall with it. Whosoever wishes to escape, let him save himself if he can; as for me, I shall remain here.”
Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor
 
 
 
 
“Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.”
Olympia Dukakis