Hummingbird Weekly Quote. 2021 Edition.

Jan 17

Jan 17 Hummingbird Weekly Quote. 2021 Edition.

Editor’s Note: Hummingbird is pleased to continue our collection of eminently quotable people and their thoughts. Each week a new one will be added. The quote might be ripped out of today’s headlines, or possibly sage words from writers we have known over time. Regardless, the purpose is to engage and entertain you--to present something you might agree or disagree with; maybe laugh (or cry) about.

***January 17, 2022, Martin Luther King, Jr.***

January 11, 2022
“carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero” — 'pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the future' -Roman poet Horace, 23 BCE
January 3, 2022
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” Thomas Merton
December 27, 2021
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.” Booker T. Washington
December 20, 2021
“One who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.” Albert Einstein
December 13, 2021
“The truth is I’m not a liberal or a conservative. I’m an institutionalist. I believe in this place and my love of country I yield to no one. But the darkness on the edge of town has spread to the main roads and highways and neighborhoods. It’s now at the local bar, and the bowling alley. At the school board, and in the grocery store.” Brian Williams
December 6, 2021
“When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.” Senator Bob Dole
November 29, 2021
“PS I'm tweeting this email. My one wish is for Twitter Inc to become the most transparent company in the world. Hi mom!” Jack Dorsey
November 22, 2021
“You dance with the one who brung ya.” Darrell Royal
November 15, 2021
“What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?” Joel Pett

November 8, 2021
“This is what God’s kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there’s always room for more.” Rachel Held Evans
November 1, 2021
“Friendship is forged across time, through good fortune and tragedy alike, and true friends are those who keep on loving one another even when it isn’t convenient, and even when they don’t always agree.”
October 26, 2021
The one thing that will decide the series: “Late-inning heroics. Clutch and timely hitting. Two-out performances. The Astros have done it all year. Dusty Baker focuses on winning the last few innings.” Doug Glanville, ESPN
October 18, 2021
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” Colin Powell
“The world lost one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed. Alma lost a great husband and the family lost a tremendous father and I lost a tremendous personal friend and mentor. ... I feel as if I have a hole in my heart.” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first Black Pentagon chief.
October 11, 2021
“Little girls with dreams become strong women with vision.” Unknown
October 4, 2021
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.” Bertrand Russell
September 27, 2021
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” John Steinbeck
September 20, 2021
“This is not a partisan debate; it is a human one. Clean air and water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights. And solving this crisis is not a question of politics. It is our moral obligation.” Leonardo DiCaprio
September 13, 2021
“I know on this day, it’s especially hard for New York and everyone around the United States. I just want to say that I hope I can be as strong and resilient as New York has been the last 20 years. Thank you for always having my back. Thank you for cheering for me. I love you, New York.” Leylah Fernandez, Runner-up, U.S. Open Grand Slam Finals
September 6, 2021
“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.” Oprah Winfrey
August 30, 2021
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice in Wonderland
August 23, 2021
“Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.” Diane Ackerman
August 16, 2021
“He had inherited his father’s fierce, win-at-any-cost competitive spirit without the humanity or introspection.” Miriam Pawel
August 9, 2021
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“You can observe a lot by just watching.”
“It gets late early out here.”
“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”
Quotes from Yogi Berra
August 2, 2021
“I'm going to go out there and represent the USA, represent the World Champions Centre and represent Black and brown girls over the world.” Simone Biles, American Gymnast, perhaps the best gymnast in the world.
July 26, 2021
“Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.” Bonnie Blair, American Speed Skater and five-time gold medalist
July 19, 2021
“As far as detours are concerned, they're always more interesting than the main road.” Mary Kelly
July 12, 2021
“Be patient with yourself when becoming someone you haven’t been before.” Tanya Markul
July 6, 2021
“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.” Steve Maraboli
June 28, 2021
“It ain't the heat, it's the humility.” Yogi Berra
June 21, 2021
“And so with the sunshine and great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
June 14, 2021
“The average dog is a much nicer person than the average person.” Andy Rooney
June 7, 2021
“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” Abraham Lincoln
June 1, 2021
“It is said we die two deaths. We die the first time when breath leaves us. But we only truly die sometime in the future when no one speaks our name or tells our story.” Randy Reeves
May 25, 2021
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” Ronald Reagan
May 17, 2021
“Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.” Harriet Beecher Stowe
May 10, 2021
“When you lose, you have made a mistake, and that can help you learn. I never lose. I learn.” Tanitoluwa Adewumi (Tani)
May 3, 2021
“We welcome you back to planet Earth, and thanks for flying SpaceX. For those of you enrolled in our frequent flier program, you have earned 68 million miles on this voyage.” Michael Heiman, SpaceX Mission Control
April 26, 2021
“The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.” Joseph L. Mankiewicz
April 19, 2021
There is nothing Holy about hatred. Lady Gaga
April 12, 2021
“A leader without followers is just a man taking a walk.” John Boehner, Former Speaker of the House, U.S. Representative, Ohio
April 5, 2021
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Nelson Mandela
March 29, 2021
“Then it was spring; and in spring anything may happen. Absolutely anything.” e.e. cummings
March 22, 2021
“In the Spring, I have counted 136 kinds of weather inside 24 hours.” Mark Twain
March 15, 2021
“March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.” Thomas Fuller (1732)
March 8, 2021
“Fully vaccinated Americans may gather indoors in private homes with one another in small groups without masks or distancing. Vaccinated people may gather in a private residence with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for developing severe disease if they contract the coronavirus, also without masks or distancing.” Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
March 1, 2021
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau
February 22, 2021
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.” Anne Tyler
February 15, 2021
“Character is much easier kept than recovered.” Thomas Paine
February 8, 2021
“If you look at the escalation of the availability of doses purely on the ability and capability of manufacturing that, it’s going to escalate and will continue to escalate as we go from February to March to April and beyond. Even though there’s a clear, clear discrepancy between the demand and supply, that will get better...Things will continue to get better.” Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director
February 2, 2021
“Figure out a way to take care of yourself, legal. Find somebody you can stand that can stand you. Pay your taxes. Take care of your teeth.” Edward Fletcher, aka Duke Bootee
January 25, 2021
“We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
every corner called our country,
our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it”
Amanda Gorman, Youth Poet Laureate, Inauguration 2021
January 18, 2021
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 11, 2021
“The depth of the divisions that we have isn’t something any single law can wipe off the face of our planet. We also need to recognize that how we get through that is by seeing the humanity in each other. There are ways we can have debates and disagreements but not resort to violence.” Andy Kim, U.S. Representative, NJ
January 4, 2021
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -” Emily Dickinson