World Habitat Day – October 5
“The Earth is all we have in common.”
– Wendell Berry
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
– Robert Swan
American Bandstand premiered – October 6, 1952
“American Band-stand premiered locally as Bandstand on October 6, 1952, on WFIL-TV in Philadelphia hosted by Bob Horn. It made its national network debut on ABC on August 5, 1957, hosted by Dick Clark. The first song danced to on the national television debut of American Bandstand on August 5, 1957, was That’ll Be the Day by Buddy Holly and the Crickets.” It broad-cast for 32 years until 1989, becoming an icon of American teen culture.”
– History.com
Eleanor Roosevelt born October 11, 1884
“I believe that democracy is based on the ability to make democracy serve the good of the majority of the people. If it can’t do that, then it should not survive.”
–ER
“Where after do human rights begin? In small places, close to home– so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
– ER
Farmer’s Day – October 12
“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“I sympathize with weeds perhaps more than with the crop they choke, they express so much vigor.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Held together with twine and a prayer. The official diagnosis for any piece of machinery that refuses to die.”
– google.com
Dictionary Day – October 16
New dictionary additions:
• “Side quest: An extra goal or task outside of a main objective.
• Copium: Slang for self-delusion used to cope with a loss or failure.
• Nanoplastic: Tiny plastic particles measuring 1,000 nanometers or less.”
– dictionary.com
World Food Day – October 16
“We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.”
– Jimmy Carter
“Being a chef is about feeding people, which is part of the story of all humanity.”
– Dominique Crenn
Black Poetry Day – October 17
“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a bro-ken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”
– Langston Hughes
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
– James Baldwin
Mother-in-Law’s Day – October 25
“The best thing about having you as my mother-in-law is my children having you as their granny.”
– Unknown
“A mother-in-law’s praise says more in a woman’s favor than anything else in the world.”
– Caroline Pafford Miller
International Red Cross organized – October 26, 1863
“The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.”
– Redcross.org
Halloween – October 31
“In masks and gowns, we haunt the street and knock on doors for trick or treat.”
– Jack Prelutsky
“Last night you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me. Do it again.”
– Morticia, The Addams Family
“It’s pronounced ‘Fronken-steen.’”
– Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein
Adopt a Shelter Animal Month
“Rescued is my favorite breed.”
– Unknown
“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Family History Month
“Knowing your generational story firms the ground upon which you stand. It makes your life, your struggles, and triumphs, bigger than your lone existence.”
– Cicely Tyson
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.”
– Gail Lumet Buckley
National Dessert Month
“We must have pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
– David Mamet
“I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit, and I don’t share dessert.”
– Beverly Sills
Polish American History Month
“October marks Polish-American Heritage Month, a time for our nation to celebrate the critical role and many important contributions by members of the Polish-American community today, and over hundreds of years of American history.”
– Rep. Jan Schakowsky