"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
John Burroughs
(04/03/1837 – 03/29/1921)
US essayist, naturalist

"Capital isn't scarce; vision is."
Sam Walton
(03/29/1918 – 04/05/1992)
US businessman

"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."
Pearl Bailey
(03/29/1918 – 08/17/1990)
US singer, actor
"Takes Two to Tango": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDd1S1TJdhY

"Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope."
Eugene McCarthy
(03/29/1916 – 12/10/2005)
US senator (MN), presidential candidate

"Under a blazing mid-afternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine... people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass."
Georges Seurat
(12/02/1859 – 03/29/1891)
French artist , on his painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

"Each man in his way is a treasure."
Robert Falcon Scott
(06/06/1868 – 03/29/1912)
English explorer

"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."
Amelia Barr
(03/29/1831 – 03/10/1919)
English-US writer

"Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette—the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace."
John Tyler
(03/29/1790 – 01/18/1862)
US President (10), VP (10)

"Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic."
Michael Parkinson
(03/28/1935 – )
English writer, broadcaster

"I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think."
Jane Rule
(03/28/1931 – 11/27/2007)
Canadian writer