December 2009
31 posts
“There are no passengers on spaceship Earth, only crew.”
– Marshall McLuhan | Died December 31, 1980
Dec 31st
“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or...”
– Romain Rolland | Died December 30, 1944
Dec 31st
“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at...”
– Christina Rossetti | Died December 29, 1894
Dec 29th
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and...”
– Theodore Dreiser | Died December 28, 1945
Dec 28th
“I do not regret, and I do not shed tears, All, like haze off apple-trees, must...”
– Sergei Yesenin | Died December 27, 1925
Dec 27th
“You’re gonna make your fortune by and by But if you lose, don’t ask...”
– Curtis Mayfield | Died December 26, 1999
Dec 26th
“Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish… The trouble...”
– Charlie Chaplin | Died December 25, 1977
Dec 25th
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted...”
– John Muir | December 24, 1914
Dec 24th
“One cannot reflect for long on moral precepts without being astonished at seeing...”
– Antoine Francois Prevost | Died December 23, 1793
Dec 23rd
“Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that...”
– George Eliot | Died December 22, 1880
Dec 22nd
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald | Died December 21, 1940
Dec 21st
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or...”
– John Steinbeck | Died December 20, 1968
Dec 20th
“Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow servile insincere But worse to...”
– Emily Bronte | Died December 19, 1848
Dec 19th
“We live in a world we ourselves create.”
– Johann Gottfried Herder | Died December 18, 1803
Dec 18th
“And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you — I am...”
– Dorothy L. Sayers | Died December 17, 1957
Dec 17th
“I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am...”
– W. Somerset Maugham | Died December 16, 1965
Dec 16th
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
– Walt Disney | December 15, 1966
Dec 15th
“I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my...”
– George Washington | Died December 14, 1799
Dec 14th
“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all...”
– Samuel Johnson | December 13, 1784
Dec 13th
“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt…”
– Joseph Heller | December 12, 1999
Dec 12th
“I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought - why not -...”
– Grace Paley | Died December 11, 2007
Dec 11th
“I left my home in Georgia, Headed for the ‘Frisco bay. ‘Cause...”
– Otis Redding | Died December 10, 1967
Dec 10th
“Still falls the Rain — Dark as the world of man, black as our loss — Blind as...”
– Edith Sitwell | Died December 9, 1964
Dec 9th
“Half of what I say is meaningless But I say it just to reach you.”
– John Lennon | Died December 8, 1980
Dec 8th
“I’ve never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know...”
– Thornton Wilder | Died December 7, 1975
Dec 7th
“I close my eyes, then I drift away. Into the magic night I softly say A silent...”
– Roy Orbison | Died December 6, 1988
Dec 6th
“Tell the angel who will watch over your future destiny, Morrel, to pray...”
– Alexandre Dumas | Died December 5, 1870
Dec 5th
“Remember there’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
– Frank Zappa | Died December 4, 1993
Dec 4th
“Many’s a long night I’ve dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson | Died December 3, 1894
Dec 3rd
“Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?”
– Marquis de Sade | Died December 2, 1814
Dec 2nd
“I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.”
– Aleister Crowley | Died December 1, 1947
Dec 1st