Ralph Waldo Emerson quote on life…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

The Nurses Prayer

Give me strength and wisdom,

When others need my touch;

A soothing word to speak to them,

Their hearts yearn for so much.

Give me joy and laughter,

To lift a weary soul;

Pour in me compassion,

To make the broken whole.

Give me gentle, healing hands,

For those left in my care;

A blessing to those who need me,

This is a Nurse’s prayer.

Anonymous…

The Gettysburg Address…

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Kathryn Grey quote on a supernova.

“It’s just a really old star, really old. So it just blows up.”

Kathryn Grey, 10, youngest person to discover a supernova.

William J. H. Boetcker “The Ten Cannots”

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

William J. H. Boetcker American Religous Leader and Public Speaker

John Greenleaf Whittier quote on giving at Christmas time…

John Greenleaf Whittier

Somehow, not only for Christmas, But all the long year through, the joy that you give to others, is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing, the poor and lonely and sad, the more of your heart’s possessing, returns to you glad.

Larry Wilde quote on Christmas…

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

Larry Wilde

12/16/2010 Jennifer Annistion quote on love…

“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”

Jennifer Anniston American Actress

Today’s Birthdays

Actress Joyce Bulifant (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) is 73.

Actress Liv Ullman is 72.

Journalist Lesley Stahl (60 Minutes) is 69.

Writer-producer Steven Bochco is 67.

Guitarist Tony Hicks of The Hollies is 65.

Singer Benny Anderson of ABBA is 64.

Actor Ben Cross is 63.

Singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top is 61.

Actress Alison LaPlaca (The John Larroquette Show) is 51.

Actor Sam Robards is 49.

Actor Jon Tenney (Brooklyn South) is 49.

Actor Benjamin Bratt (Law and Order) is 47.

Country singer Jeff Carson is 47.

Singer Michael McCary of Boyz II Men is 39.

Actress Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia films) is 22.

12/15/2010 Tim Conway quote…

Celebrity Birthdays on 12/15/2010

Actor-comedian Tim Conway is 77.

Singer Cindy Birdsong of The Supremes is 71.

Drummer Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five is 68.

Drummer Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge is 64.

Actor Don Johnson is 61.

Actress Melanie Chartoff (Rugrats,Parker Lewis Can’t Lose ) is 60.

Actor Justin Ross is 56.

Bassist Paul Simonon of The Clash is 55.

Country singer Doug Phelps (The Kentucky Headhunters, Brothers Phelps) is 50.

Actress Helen Slater is 47.

Actress Molly Price (Third Watch) is 45.

Actor Michael Shanks (Stargate SG-1) is 40.

Actor Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned) is 38.

Actor Adam Brody (The O.C.) is 31.

Actor George O. Gore II (My Wife and Kids) is 28.

Here is a quote from Tim Conway

I figure you’re only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I’ve always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.

December 9th 2010 Kirk Douglas quote on love…

Today is Dec 9th 2010.
Born on this day Dec 9th 1916 was one Kirk Douglas. He is number 17 on the American Films Institute list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. He was born in Amsterdam, New York as Issur Herschelovich Danielovitch to Bryna “Bertha” and and Herschel “Harry” Demsky a businessman, Douglas’s parents, originally surnamed Danielovitch, were Jewish immigrants from Gomel, Belarus.

Douglas came from a poor family and as a consequence he sold snacks to mill workers in order to get milk and bread. He claimed that he must have worked more than 40 jobs before he became an actor. He also said that living with a family of six sisters was very stifling. That experience put a fire under him to get out. During high school, he acted in school plays, and discovered “The one thing in my life that I always knew, that was always constant, was that I wanted to be an actor.

He talked his way into Saint Lawrence University and received a loan for which he paid back doing jobs that ranged from a part time job as a janitor and also a gardener.

His talents were noticed at the American Academy of Dramtic Arts for which he recieved a special scholarship. One of his classmates was a woman whose name was Betty Joan Perske (who later became the better known Lauren Bacall). She would later play a huge role in launching Kirk’s acting career. While doing summer stock theater during a college term break, he began using the name Kirk Douglas, which he later would legally adopt.

He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1941 and was medically discharged because of war injuries in 1944.

Now after the war, Douglas returned to New York City. He found work in radio theater and commercials. His big break on the stage occurred in Kiss and Tell, which gave him more roles. Douglas was planning to remain a stage actor but Lauren Bacall helped him get his first screen role in the Hal B. Wallis film The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), starring Barbara Stanwyck. Wallis was on his way to New York to look for new talent when Bacall suggested he visit Douglas, who was rehearsing a play called The Wind Is Ninety. Douglas finished the play’s run and with no follow-up work in sight, headed to Hollywood. He was immediately cast in one of the leading roles in Wallis’ film, and made his film acting debut as a weak man dominated by a ruthless woman, unlike his later roles where he often played dominating characters.

Here is a list of the movies that Mr. Douglas has made.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
I Walk Alone (1948)
The Walls of Jericho (1948)
My Dear Secretary (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Champion (1949)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
Along the Great Divide (1951)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Detective Story (1951)
The Big Trees (1952)
The Big Sky (1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
The Juggler (1953)
Act of Love (1953)
The Jack Benny Program (television, 1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
The Racers (1955)
Ulisse (U.S. title: Ulysses, 1955)
Man Without a Star (1955)
The Indian Fighter (1955)
Lust for Life (1956)
Top Secret Affair (1957)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Vikings (1958)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
The Devil’s Disciple (1959)
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Town Without Pity (1961)
The Last Sunset (1961)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
The Hook (1963)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
For Love or Money (1963)
Seven Days in May (1964)
In Harm’s Way (1965)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
The Way West (1967)
The War Wagon (1967)
Once Upon a Wheel (documentary, 1968)
A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
The Brotherhood (1968)
The Arrangement (1969)
There Was a Crooked Man… (1970)
To Catch a Spy (1971)
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
A Gunfight (1971)
A Man to Respect (1972)
The Master Touch (1972)
Scalawag (1973)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973)
Posse (1975) Also director
Once Is Not Enough (1975)
Holocaust 2000 (1977)
The Fury (1978)
The Villain (1979)
Saturn 3 (1980)
Home Movies (1980)
The Final Countdown (1980)
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Remembrance of Love (1982)
Eddie Macon’s Run (1983)
Draw! (1984)
Amos (1985)
Tough Guys (1986)
Queenie (television, 1987)
Inherit the Wind (1988)
Oscar (1991)
Veraz (1991)
The Secret (television, 1992)
A Century of Cinema (documentary, 1994)
Greedy (1994)
Diamonds (1999)
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Illusion (2004)
Meurtres à l’Empire State Building (U.S. title: Empire State Building Murders, 2008)
Before I Forget (documentary) (2010)
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Love has more depth as you get older.

Kirk Douglas – American Actor