Facebook first launched – February 4, 2004
Quotes from Facebook
- “If a plant is sad, do other plants photosympathise wth it?”
- “I feel like I should clean the house, so I’m going to my garden to play until the feeling passes.”
- “I’m not sleeping. I’m resting my eyes – all dads, on every couch, anytime ever.”
- “I couldn’t find a parking spot at work today, so I went home. Looks like they had enough people.”
- “Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grown in everyone’s garden.”
Thank a Mail Carrier Day – February 4
“Nobody understands holiday anxiety like a USPS employee.”
– pinterest
“Millions of Americans and businesses rely on the Postal Service to deliver our medicine, ballots, and retail goods – securely and on time. The Postal Service deserves our full support.”
–Alex Padilla
Authors Charles Dickens (1812) and Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867) were born February 7
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”
– Charles Dickens (CD)
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
– CD
“Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other thing.”
– LIW
National Inventor’s Day – February 11
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
– Albert Einstein
“Be brave enough to be bad at something new.”
– Jon Acuff
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that it won’t work.”
– Thomas Alva Edison
First Barbie dolls for sale – February 12, 1959
“In a world full of stereotypical Barbies, be Weird Barbie.”
“We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they have come.”
“You can be anything.”
– Barbie slogan
First public school established – February 13, 1635
“Education is the one thing no one can take away from you.”
– Elin Nordengren
“Education breed confidence. Confidence breed hope. Hope breeds peace.”
– Confucius
“The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
– Sydney J. Harris
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery”
– Horace Mann
Valentine’s Day – February 14
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.”
– Katharine Hepburn
“Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
– Ann Landers
“I married for love, but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find your glasses cannot be ignored.”
– Cameron Espisito
Random Acts of Kindness Day – February 17
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
– Amelia Earhart
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
– Desmond Tutu
Presidents’ Day – February 19
“Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.”
– George W. Bush
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”
– Andrew Jackson
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born February 27, 1807
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
– HWL
“Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors than from his virtues.
– HWL
Black History Month
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.”
– Karyn Parsons
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
– Nelson Mandela
International Friendship Month
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
– Bill Watterson
“Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend.”
– Sarah Dessen
“How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ‘em.”
– Shel Silverstein