Quotes from authors born on Dec 7th
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
Matthew Shipp
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
Tom Waits
Francois Mauriac 
Bayard Rustin 
Harry Chapin 
Tom Lantos 
Tom Lehrer 
Krista Allen 
Joyce Carol Oates 
Aeschylus