Pat Robertson (1930) American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister
“In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways — Who was to be the new Bishop?”
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Barchester Towers (1857)
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Arthur Chapman (poet) (1873–1935) American poet and newspaper columnist
Out Among the Big Things http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#AMONG, st. 1. <br class="br"> Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#outbk (1917)
“Teach us…… that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 3, p. 21.
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1850s, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Context: What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
“It’s is the old who age a day every hour”
José Saramago book The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 85 (Vintage 2003)