"Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature."

Mohammed
(01/30/0570 – 06/08/0632)
Arabian religious leader

"What is reading but silent conversation?"

Walter Savage Landor
(01/30/1775 – 09/17/1864)
English writer

"Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst."

Francis H. Bradley
(01/30/1846 – 09/18/1924)
English philosopher

"Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"
I'm sorry, now, I wrote it!
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'll kill you if you quote it."

Gelett Burgess
(01/30/1866 – 09/17/1951)
US writer

"You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look."

Sir Seymour Hicks
(01/30/1871 – 04/06/1949)
English actor

"It is fun to be in the same decade with you."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(01/30/1882 – 04/12/1945)
US President (32) (see all US Presidents; cousin of Theodore Roosevelt; married to Eleanor Roosevelt) , in a cable to Winston Churchill

"Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport."

Saul Alinsky
(01/30/1909 – 06/12/1972)
US political activist

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."

Barbara W. Tuchman
(01/30/1912 – 02/06/1989)
US writer, historian

"At what point did Rhythm and Blues start becoming rock'n'roll? When the white kids started to dance to it."

Ruth Brown
(01/30/1928 – )
US singer

"Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors."

Gene Hackman
(01/30/1930 – )
US actor

"Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more."

Shirley Hazzard
(01/30/1931 – )
Australian writer

"I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word mayonnaise."

Richard Brautigan
(01/30/1935 – 10/25/1984)
US writer

"There are certain elements of the Bond lifestyle I have yet to experience, Jay, but I'm hopeful."

Dick Cheney
(01/30/1941 – )
US vp (46), war criminal and profiteer, and sharpshooter , to Jay Leno on his reported "James Bond-like aura" (see other US VPs)

"They say that after a brush with death the world looks different and that was true for me, but by the time I caught my breath, I realized that it was because I had lost my glasses."

Michael Anthony Dorris
(01/30/1945 – 04/11/1997)
US writer (was married to Louise Erdrich)

"It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me."

Phil Collins
(01/30/1951 – )
English drummer

"I've done moves that would make Iggy Pop blush. Iggy is a walking, talking explosion. I was kind of a balloon deflating."

Mark Eitzel
(01/30/1959 – )
US singer (American Music Club)