Quotes from authors that died on Jan 5th
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
George Washington Carver
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver
Ricky Skaggs 
Meriwether Lewis 
Richard Francis Burton 
Samuel Beckett 
Amy Poehler 
Roger Mahony 
William Cowper 
Kurt Schwitters