We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.
- Ellen Goodman
topic: New Year, Years, Drawing, January 1, January 1st
I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life.
- Peace Pilgrim
topic: Wish, Age, Lessons, January 1, Ageless
I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.
- George H. W. Bush
source: "The Return of the Decade of the Brain" by Luke Dittrich, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2013.
topic: America, People, Brain, January 1, Public Officials
I never really have any major resolutions. I do try to be a good person, to be a good mom, to be a good wife, I don't really start the year off on January 1, 'Oh, I am now going to make a big change.' I try every day when I wake up to be good to the people around me.
- Heidi Klum
source: "Celeb New Year's Resolutions for 2011: Amy Poehler, Ryan Seacrest, Heidi Klum and more". www.mcall.com. January 05, 2011.
topic: Mom, Years, People, January 1, Good Wife
Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.
- Neil Shubin
topic: Party, Animal, Years, January 1, Algae