My Day (Primary source)
Collections of Roosevelt’s syndicated newspaper column written six days weekly from 1935-1962, offering accessible, diary-like observations on daily life, politics, civil rights, and current events that reached millions of American readers.
“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Example is the best lesson there is.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“This is a time for action—not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary sourceMore quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt →
“I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Love the day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Every day above earth is a good day.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source