Quotes from authors born on Jun 24th
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
Pete Hamill
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce
Alonzo Mourning 
Marguerite Yourcenar 
Nora Ephron 
Strom Thurmond 
Sherman Alexie 
Howard Hodgkin 
Richard Marx 
Nana Mouskouri