September 15: Notable Births, with Quotes
Explore memorable and revealing quotes from public figures, past and present, who were born on September 15.
Agatha Christie, author (September 15, 1890–January 12, 1976)
“The disappointing truth is I haven’t much method. I type my own drafts on an ancient faithful machine I’ve owned for years.” —Agatha Christie
BBC. “Agatha Christie – in her own words.” BBC, 1955, https://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2007/02/13/agatha_christie_1955_interview_feature.shtml
“I think the real work is done in thinking out the development of your story and worrying about it until it comes right. That may take quite a while. Then, when you’ve got all your material together, all that remains is to find time to write the thing.” —Agatha Christie
BBC. “Agatha Christie – in her own words.” BBC, 1955, https://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2007/02/13/agatha_christie_1955_interview_feature.shtml
William Howard Taft, former US president (September 15 1857–March 8, 1930)
“Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office upon which he is about to enter, or he is lacking in a proper sense of the obligation which the oath imposes.” —William Howard Taft
Taft, William Howard. “March 4, 1909: Inaugural Address.” Miller Center, March 4, 1909, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/march-4-1909-inaugural-address
“The scope of a modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old ‘laissez faire’ school of political writers, and this widening has met popular approval.” —William Howard Taft
Taft, William Howard. “March 4, 1909: Inaugural Address.” Miller Center, March 4, 1909, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/march-4-1909-inaugural-address
James Fenimore Cooper, author (September 15, 1789–September 14, 1851)
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.” —James Fenimore Cooper
Cooper, James Fenimore. “The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper.” Project Gutenberg, March 25, 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/940/940-h/940-h.htm
“I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlement, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.” —James Fenimore Cooper
Cooper, James Fenimore. “The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper.” Project Gutenberg, March 25, 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/940/940-h/940-h.htm
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