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“America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.” – Adlai Stevenson
“There is no teacher equal to mother and there’s nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.” – Amit Ray
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” – Winston Churchill
“Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.” – James A. Garfield
Facebook Is Launched
February 4, 2004
“If you can’t stop thinking about someone’s update, that’s called ‘status cling’.”
– Jessica Park
“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education.
National Cookie Day
December 4
“Empty?! You took all the cookies!”
“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” – Mark Twain
“I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.” – Wendy Delsol
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
National Ice Cream Month – July
“Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.”
– Jim Fiebig
“I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.”
– Wendy Liebman
“I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.”
– Brian Regan
National Picnic Month – July
“We hope that when insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.”
– Bill Vaughan
“Among the delights of summer were picnics to the woods.”
– Georg Brandes
“A couple went for a picnic.