"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?" — J. D. Salinger, American writer, born 1919
"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it." — J. D. Salinger, American writer, born 1919
"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner." — Jonas Salk, American medical researcher, born 1914
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." — Jonas Salk, American medical researcher, born 1914
"When asked who owned the polio vaccine patent, Salk replied: There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" — Jonas Salk, American medical researcher, born 1914
"I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul." — Sonia Sanchez, American poet, born 1934
"I still hear you humming, Mama. The color of your song calls me home. The color of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama." — Sonia Sanchez, American poet, born 1934
"Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood." — Sonia Sanchez, American poet, born 1934
"When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on." — Carl Sandburg, American poet, born 1878
"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race." — Margaret Sanger, American nurse, born 1879
"People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose." — Carlos Santana, Mexican-American musician, born 1947