Quotes October 03, 2021

“The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
 
 
 
 
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock
 
 
 
 
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
Frances Wright
 
 
 
 
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton – 1643-1727 – Mathematician-Physicist-Astronomer-Author
 
 
 
 
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton – 1643-1727 – Mathematician-Physicist-Astronomer-Author
 
 
 
 
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
Aretha Franklin – 1942-2018 – Singer-Songwriter-Pianist
 
 
 
 
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
Gustave Courbet,
painter, leader of the Realism movement
 
 
 
 
“What is the next thing?” The ineffability of that next thing preoccupies me more than anything else.
Where’s the thing that I haven’t seen myself do before?
Carmen Gimenez Smith,
poet, editor, publisher, educator
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
The creative word is key to joining in and affecting the ways of the universe.
Juan Felipe Herrera,
poet, writer, performer, activist, first Latino poet laureate of the US
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15