1976 Centennial Quotes

#1. Choose to be who you are ... The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. He used the haunting phrase, Alas for what has been lost.

Mitch Albom

#3. In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.

Paul Vitz

#4. I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

Kevin Costner

#5. If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.

CM Punk

#6. Evaluating and altering the way you use the word "we" in speech, thought and writing is the simplest, yet also one of the most profound changes you can make in your everyday life to secede psychologically from the global collective and become a barbarian.

Jack Donovan

#7. It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Robert Venturi

#8. He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.

Amy Dickinson