Bio

Hometown

Brighton, Colorado

Political Views

Democratic Party

Religious Views

Lutheran, ELCA

Relationship Status

Married to Vern Southern since July 22, 2000

Places You've Lived

• Denver, Colorado - Dec 25, 2018
• Aurora, Colorado - Jan 1, 1990
• Greeley, Colorado - Jan 1, 1987

Clothing

• Woman Within
• fullbeauty.com
• Genie

Games

• Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Foods

• Breakfast
• Cheese burgers
• Steak
• Polish & German cuisine

Activities

• Childfree
• Traveling
• Phi Alpha Theta
• Historical Research
• Writing
• Military history

Education

• University of Colorado Denver College I transferred to the University of Colorado in Denver to finish my BA degree. I had previously studied at the University of Northern CO in Greeley from 1987 to 1990. 1994 History BA degree cum laude honors
• Weld Central Junior - Senior High School High School This picture is my senior picture, taken in the Autumn of 1986. 1987

Workplace

• Amazon.com
  December 31, 2013 - Kindle author I have written five non-fiction historical works about Auschwitz the Holocaust and one about local Colorado and Denver history on Kindle. I write in addition to my full-time day job.
• Children's Hospital Colorado

Spoken Languages

• American English
• German language

Screen Names

• cdmsouthern (Instagram)
• cmsouthern (Twitter)

Favorite Teams

• USA Bobsled & Skeleton
• USA Luge, Winter Olympic Games

Interests

• Sonderkommando KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
• History of Colorado
• History Colorado
• Calico cats
• Sachsenhausen concentration camp
• National Parks
• Longs Peak
• Rocky Mountain National Park
• Colorado History
• Reading Books

Professional Skills

• Auschwitz-Birkenau camp
• World War Two
• The Holocaust
• History
• Editing
• Writing
• Proofreading

Favorite Athletes

• Noelle Pikus Pace
• Steven Holcomb

Restaurants

• SONDER Coffee & Tea, Flynn's Restaurant
• Las Fajitas Mexican Restaurant

• The Other Side Restaurant
• Echo Lake Lodge Restaurant and Gift Shop

• Golden Shanghai Asian Restaurant
• Cafe Katzentempel

Websites

• Dozen Best Books
• I Love Germany
• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
• Bootstrap Website Design
• Dicke Katze - Cute Fat Cats

• Tatromaniak, ExploreB2B - International
• mountainclimb.com
• PaperBackSwap
• The Write Life, WWII FILES

• Most Beautiful Places
• I Love My Cat
• World War II Today
• Krakow Post
• Points.com

Music

• Rynek Główny w Oświęcimiu
• Gustav Holst
• Renée Fleming
• Anne-Marie McDermott
• Ottorino Respighi
• Claude Debussy
• Edward Grieg
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Bocherini
• Mozart
• Pablo de Sarasate
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Benjamin Britten
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Antonio Vivaldi
• John Philip Sousa
• George Gershwin
• James Horner
• Mahler
• Gustav
• Viktor Ullmann
• Viktor Ullmann
• Gil Shaham
• Orli Shaham
• Wedding Music & More by Jody - Carrollton
• Georgia
• Eugene Ormandy
• Janet Baker
• Claudio Abbado
• Maria Callas
• Franz Lehár
• Léo Delibes
• Haydn
• Last Orders

• Last Orders
• Handel's Messiah
• Johann Strauss I
• Johann Strauss II
• Tchaikovsky
• Lehar
• Vladimir Ashkenazy
• Daniel Barenboim
• Igor Stravinsky
• Gustav Holst
• Classical music
• Rossini
• Frédéric Chopin
• Deutsche Grammophon
• CATS
• Vangelis
• John Legend
• Arnold Schoenberg
• Bruckner
• Mussorgsky
• Billie Holiday
• Vivaldi
• Herbert von Karajan
• Schubert
• Sibelius
• Gluck
• Franz Peter Schubert
• Ravel
• Serge Prokofieff
• Carla Maria Puccini
• Antonín Dvořák
• Robert Schumann
• Rachmaninoff
• Elgar
• Saint Saens

• Grieg
• Shostakovich
• Debussy
• Pachelbel
• Brahms
• Mahler
• Erik Satie
• Richard Strauss
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Coast to Coast AM
• Sleepless Wild
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Gorecki
• Nicola Benedetti
• Rihanna
• Arvo Part
• Ray Lynch
• Mannheim Steamroller
• Kitaro
• Andreas Vollenweider
• Richard Wagner
• Mozart
• The Three Crooners Show
• Enya
• Beethoven
• Chopin
• Whitney Houston
• New age
• Elisha Kemp Music
• Eurythmics
• Jazz
• Mariah Carey
• Lady Gaga
• Show tunes
• John Denver

Books

• Bajo la Tormenta
• Auschwitz
• Nunca Jamás Crónica de un éxito bajolatormenta.hol.es
• Marcia Drut-Davis
• The Trumpets of Jericho: a novel
• Seeds of Yesterday
• If There Be Thorns
• Petals on the Wind
• Look Who's Back
• Until the Final Hour
• Rescue Me Tales
• My Street Cats
• The Hanauer Family Before
• During and After the Holocaust
• Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story
• Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before WWII
• Perguntem a Sarah Gross / Os Loucos da Rua Mazur
• whiskerslist: the kitty classifieds
• Prisoners of Fear by Dr Ella Lingens-Reiner
• La neve nell'armadio
• Prince Lestat
• Auschwitz: A New History
• We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
• Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
• Anus Mundi (Wieslaw Kielar)
• Hope Is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror
• The Zone of Interest

• Sam Pivnik
• Amber Desecrated
• The Amber Room
• Auschwitz and After
• Last Orders
• Repeat Offender
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Apocalipsis (novela)
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Dan Brown
• QB VII
• A Christmas Carol
• Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
• The Auschwitz Escape
• The Shining (novel)
• The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
• A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic
• A Christmas Story Treasury: A Tribute to the Original
• Traditional
• One-Hundred-Percent
• Red-Blooded
• Two-Fisted
• All-American Holiday Movie
• Rose Under Fire
• Doctor Sleep
• The Memories We Keep
• Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat
• Homer's Odyssey
• Backpacking With A Bunion

• Terry's Travels
• Dante's Inferno
• The Davinci Code
• Inferno (Dan Brown novel)
• If This Is a Man
• The Music Man of Terezin: The Story of Rafael Schaechter
• Lost Cat
• Books Are Magic
• The Locket by Mike Evans
• For Reading Addicts
• The Key to Rebecca
• Eye of the Needle
• Hornet Flight
• Jackdaws
• Luther's Small Catechism
• Edelweiss Pirates
• Fall of Giants (novel)
• Winter of the World
• Being Fruitful Without Multiplying
• Purrs of Wisdom
• Fans of Love Saves the Day
• Different Seasons
• The Vampire Lestat
• Crime Buff's Guides
• The Handmaid's Tale
• World War 2 Books
• Under the Dome
• In the Garden of Beasts
• The Reader
• Flowers in the Attic
• Auschwitz 1270 to the Present by Deborah Dvork and Robert Van Pelt
• Stephen King's The Stand
• Dewey the Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Movies

• Bajo la Tormenta
• Auschwitz
• Nunca Jamás Crónica de un éxito bajolatormenta.hol.es
• Marcia Drut-Davis
• The Trumpets of Jericho: a novel
• Seeds of Yesterday
• If There Be Thorns
• Petals on the Wind
• Look Who's Back
• Until the Final Hour
• Rescue Me Tales
• My Street Cats
• The Hanauer Family Before
• During and After the Holocaust
• Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story
• Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before WWII
• Perguntem a Sarah Gross / Os Loucos da Rua Mazur
• whiskerslist: the kitty classifieds
• Prisoners of Fear by Dr Ella Lingens-Reiner
• La neve nell'armadio
• Prince Lestat
• Auschwitz: A New History
• We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
• Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
• Anus Mundi (Wieslaw Kielar)
• Hope Is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror
• The Zone of Interest

• Sam Pivnik
• Amber Desecrated
• The Amber Room
• Auschwitz and After
• Last Orders
• Repeat Offender
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Apocalipsis (novela)
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Dan Brown
• QB VII
• A Christmas Carol
• Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
• The Auschwitz Escape
• The Shining (novel)
• The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
• A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic
• A Christmas Story Treasury: A Tribute to the Original
• Traditional
• One-Hundred-Percent
• Red-Blooded
• Two-Fisted
• All-American Holiday Movie
• Rose Under Fire
• Doctor Sleep
• The Memories We Keep
• Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat
• Homer's Odyssey
• Backpacking With A Bunion

• Terry's Travels
• Dante's Inferno
• The Davinci Code
• Inferno (Dan Brown novel)
• If This Is a Man
• The Music Man of Terezin: The Story of Rafael Schaechter
• Lost Cat
• Books Are Magic
• The Locket by Mike Evans
• For Reading Addicts
• The Key to Rebecca
• Eye of the Needle
• Hornet Flight
• Jackdaws
• Luther's Small Catechism
• Edelweiss Pirates
• Fall of Giants (novel)
• Winter of the World
• Being Fruitful Without Multiplying
• Purrs of Wisdom
• Fans of Love Saves the Day
• Different Seasons
• The Vampire Lestat
• Crime Buff's Guides
• The Handmaid's Tale
• World War 2 Books
• Under the Dome
• In the Garden of Beasts
• The Reader
• Flowers in the Attic
• Auschwitz 1270 to the Present by Deborah Dvork and Robert Van Pelt - History
• Stephen King's The Stand
• Dewey the Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Television

• Face The Nation
• CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor
• FBI
• Last Man Standing
• Young Sheldon
• PBS
• Great American Read PBS
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Heart of the World: Colorado's National Parks
• The X-Files
• The Man in the High Castle
• Code Black on CBS
• Wayward Pines
• The Dovekeepers
• The Strain
• CBS Sunday Morning
• The Walking Dead
• The National Parks: America's Best Idea (PBS)
• Unsung Heroes: The Story of America's Female Patriots
• Cosmos

• Space: Above and Beyond
• Six Feet Under
• Carnivale
• Deadwood
• The Sopranos
• Frasier
• NBC Olympics
• The Crazy Ones
• BBC Earth
• Monk
• Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution'
• Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
• Mastercats Cinema
• The Shining (miniseries)
• The Genealogy Roadshow
• Wipeout
• Fractal
• Into the West (TV miniseries)
• Shark Week
• John Adams miniseries
• Rick Steves' Europe
• Scrubs

• Under The Dome On CBS
• Discovery
• Storm Chasers
• M*A*S*H
• Documentaries
• Criminal Minds
• Jay Leno
• Zero Hour
• Band of Brothers
• Craig Ferguson Show
• Science Channel's Oddities
• HISTORY Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
• House
• The Big Bang Theory
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992 TV series)
• American Horror Story
• The History Channel (UK)
• Law and Order SVU
• Jeopardy!
• Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe
• Fringe

Inspirational People

• Martin Niemöller
• Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
• Hans Scholl
• Thomas Jefferson
• Edith Stein

• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• George S. Patton
• Maximilian Kolbe
• Oskar Schindler
• IRENA SENDLER

• Margaret Sanger
• Mala Zimetbaum
• Jesus Christ
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Alice Paul
• Winston Churchill
• Martin Luther

Facebook Groups

• Bedzin-Sosnowiec-Zawiercie Area Research Society
• Susan and Lenny
• The Man in the High Castle Official Group
• Kidney Support: Dialysis,Transplants
• Donors and Recipients
• Pacific Street Films
• we love flowers and rose Bird نحن نحب الزهور 🦅🌷🌻💐我们爱花和玫瑰🌹🌷وێنەی گو ڵ
• Chronic Kidney Disease Support Group 💚
• WWII German

• Voices of the Wehrmacht - Festung Kurland: the last stand of the Wehrmacht
• Childfree Cat Enthusiasts
• Toxic Parents
• The 20th Century's War
• Das Deutsche Militär 1933-1945
• Colorado Photography
• Sonderkommando Auschwitz
• Colorado Front Range Landscape Photography
• WAR MOVIE ZONE
• WWII Pictures
• Weld Central Junior - Senior High School Class of '87

• Vintage Paperback and Pulp Forum
• Second World War Club, Landscape | Wildlife | Nature Photography of the American West
• The Auschwitz Calendar and Compendium
• Confessions of Childfree People
• Ghost Division Historical Research
• BUNKROWCY
• Roberta Kagan Book Club
• You Grew Up In Denver If You Remember When..., Estes Park Center
• YMCA of the Rockies Staffers & Alumni

Favorite Quotes

"History is not merely a repetitious study of past events, but rather a conclusive study of past events that helped shape our present day world."
~ Cynthia Southern (as quoted in my senior year book)

"What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Stronger"
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Well behaved women seldom make history."
~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"If you want something said ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."
~ Margaret Thatcher

"A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up."
~ Mae West

"Living Well is the Best Revenge"
~ George Herbert

"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire."
~ The Talmud

"Contrarianism is creativity for the untalented."
~ Dennis Miller

"Utopias seem to be much more achievable than we formerly believed them to be. Now we find ourselves presented with another alarming question: how do we prevent utopias from coming into existence? …Utopias are possible. Life tends towards the formation of utopias. Perhaps a new century will begin, a century in which intellectuals and the privileged will dream of ways to eliminate utopias and return to a non-utopic society less perfect and more free."
~ Nicholas Berdiaeff from his epigraph at the beginning of 'A Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley

"The Platte River was a mile wide and an inch deep, too thin to plow and too thick to drink."
~ what early travelers said about the Platte River in CO

"You are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you...I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, just before D-Day began

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"
~ Winston Churchill

"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."
~ Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
~ Winston Churchill

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
~ Winston Churchill

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
~ Winston Churchill

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
~ Winston Churchill

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
~ Winston Churchill

"A joke is a very serious thing."
~ Winston Churchill

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
~ Marilyn Monroe

"The object of war is peace on the victor’s terms."
~ Sun Tzu

"I cannot live without books."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"When Life Gives you Lemons...Make Lemonade!"
~ Unknown

"Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason."
~ Mark Twain

"The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath."
~ W. C. Fields

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
~ Groucho Marx

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
~ Edmund Burke

"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."
~ Jim Davis

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure and defeat... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
~ Theodore Roosevelt

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years"
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
~ H.L. Mencken

"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
~ Ray Bradbury

"How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven."
~ Robert A. Heinlein

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music."
~ Albert Einstein

"Without music life would be a mistake."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
~ Plato

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
~ Victor Hugo

"What's a home without children? Quiet."
~ Henny Youngman

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
~ Charles Bukowski

"Keep your faith in God. Keep your soul in the light. Keep your family next to you."
~ Carlos Santana

"Never believe anything anyone writes about you. If it's bad it brings you down. If it's good it makes your head bigger than your heart, then you're doomed."
~ Carlos Santana

"Let he who desires for peace prepare for war."
~ Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

"Life and death are only temporary but freedom goes on forever."
~ Peter Joseph 'Peejoe Bullis in Crazy in Alabama

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."
~ Will Rogers

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
~ Will Rogers

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
~ Will Rogers

"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument."
~ Will Rogers

"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds."
~ Will Rogers

"Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious."
~ Will Rogers

"Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due."
~ Will Rogers

"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
~ Will Rogers

"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
~ Will Rogers

"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you."
~ Will Rogers

"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."
~ Will Rogers

"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it."
~ Will Rogers

"In the kingdom of death you have to find the meaning of life."
~ Professor Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, chairman of the International Auschwitz Committee

"I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well. My songs are like my children, I expect them to support me when I'm old."
~ Dolly Parton

"You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you."
~ Arthur Miller

"People without brains do an awful lot of talking don't they?"
~ The Tin Man from 'The Wizard Of Oz'

"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head."
~ Ann Landers

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
~ Isaac Asimov

"If I had wanted to lose 18-20 years of my freedom I might as well try to rob a bank instead of having children."
~ unknown

"To not know history is to be like a leaf who does not know about the tree it comes from."
~ Michael Crichton

"I always thought that if I were popular I must be doing something wrong."
~ Suzanne Vega, born 1959. She was an American singer and song writer.

"If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem."
~ Glenda Jackson, born 1936. She was an English actress.

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way."
~ Robert Kiyosaki

"The only thing I can't resist is temptation."
~ Oscar Wilde

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
~ Mae West

"If pro is the opposite of con and progress is moving forward what is congress?"
~ unknown

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
~ Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of meand things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
~ Mark Twain

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
~ Leonard Bernstein

"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have"
~ life itself.
~Walter Anderson

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
~ William James

"I simply can not resist a CAT particularly a purring one."
~ Mark Twain

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn the past, not to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment."
~ Buddha

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
~ Anton Chekhov

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
~ Mohandas Gandhi

" All praise to you, Oh Lord, for all these brother and sister creatures."
~ St. Francis of Assisi

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The mountains are calling and I must go."
~ John Muir

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
~ Jorge Luis Borges

"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
~ Winston Churchill

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything"
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
~ Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela

"Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed."
~ Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before."
~ Albert Einstein

"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
~ Anne Frank

"Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself."
~ Susan B. Anthony

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
~ Groucho Marx

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
~ Groucho Marx

"Ideals are peaceful. History is violent."
~ Wardaddy, commander of the Fury Sherman tank

"Mozart's music is from heaven. Bach's music takes you to heaven."
~ unknown

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."
~ Mark Twain

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
~ Pericles

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."
~ Bo Bennett

"Books, the children of the brain."
~ Jonathan Swift

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
~ Albert Pike

"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead."
~ Igor Stravinsky

"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in."
~ Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

"History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes."
~ Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)