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Henry Wallace (then secretary of agriculture): "This country should raise more wheat."
Heckler: "What about hay?"
Wallace: "I'm speaking about food for mankind, but I'll get around to your case in a minute."
(10/07/1888
11/18/1965)
US Vice President (24)
(same dates as Niels Bohr)
"We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us."
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
(08/29/1809
10/07/1894)
US writer, scientist, scholar
(father of Holmes Jr.)
"You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands."
"Mother" Charleszetta Waddles
(10/07/1912
07/12/2001)
US preacher, activist
"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I’m concerned it can have it."
Elizabeth Janeway
(10/07/1913
01/15/2005)
US writer
"Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny."
June Allyson
(10/07/1917
07/08/2006)
US actor
, on Ronald Reagan
(was married to Dick Powell)
"There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God."
William Zinsser
(10/07/1922
05/12/2015)
US grammarian
("On Writing Well")
"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1, or A2."
R. D. Laing
(10/07/1927
08/23/1989)
English psychiatrist
"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land."
Bishop Desmond Tutu
(10/07/1931
)
African religious leader, Nobelist
"The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink"
Diane Ackerman
(10/07/1948
)
US writer
"Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song."
John Mellencamp
(10/07/1951
)
US singer, songwriter
(was engaged to Meg Ryan)
"We discussed this very important issue yesterday over a beer."
Vladimir Putin
(10/07/1952
)
Russian President
, on the 2000 US presidential "election"
"There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless."
Thom Yorke
(10/07/1968
)
English musician (Radiohead)
"I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up."
Leo Durocher
(07/27/1905
10/07/1991)
US baseball player, coach
"The silence is deafening."
Gail Zappa
(01/01/1945
10/07/2015)
US rock'n'roll wife and mother
, on life without Frank
(was married to Frank Zappa)
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