June 29, 1900
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
July 2, 1908
Thurgood Marshall
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody—a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns—bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
July 3, 1860
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”
