What a Life!

Jesus of Nazareth, 33, was a Galilean Jewish carpenter who changed the world by dying for our sins on a cruel Roman cross – and rising from the dead on the third day.

Quotable Quotes:

"For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life."

0400Kalus Teuber, 70, was the inventor of the board game THE SETTLERS OF CATAN. He died Saturday April 1, 2023.

Quotable Quotes:

"In the beginning, these games were just for me. I always have stories in my head — I would read a book, and if I liked it, I wanted to experience it as a game."

"When I read about the Vikings, when they discovered Iceland, I thought: 'What would happen if some explorers come to an island where there's no one? What will they do?'"

"I never expected it would be so successful."

Bernard "Bing" Newcomb, 79, was the co-founder of E*Trade. He died January 29, 2023.

Quotable Quotes:

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision." – Stevie Wonder

"I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God." – Helen Keller

"Believe you can, and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader. He died April 4, 1968. Quotable Quotes:

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause."

Mark Russell, 90, was a political satirist and stand-up comic. He died Thursday March 30, 2023.

Quotable Quotes:

"I come from a funny family. There was a kind of competitiveness as far back as I can remember. We were always putting each other on."

"I have 535 writers. One hundred in the Senate and 435 in the House of Representatives."

"You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game."

"I look at the paper. I like to have a newspaper. Then I start reading and reading and reading. And when I see something that makes me gag, I know we're off to the races."

Bill Leavy, 76, was a decorated and highly respected NFL referee. He died Tuesday March 28, 2023.

Quotable Quotes:

"I know that I did my best at that time, but it wasn't good enough,"

"When we make mistakes, you got to step up and own them. It's something that all officials have to deal with, but unfortunately when you have to deal with it in the Super Bowl it's difficult."

"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes." - Sir Winston Churchill.

Bill Zehme, 64, was a celebrity biographer best known for his books on Frank Sinatra and Johnny Carson. He died Sunday March 26, 2023.

Quotable Quotes:

"I have the disposition of a psychoanalyst," he once said. "I can talk to people. I like to ask questions. I like to fathom what it's like to be them. You have to be very empathic. You have to be ready to understand what people are about. I strike some sort of a balance where I can play with people and at the same time, ideally, they reveal things about themselves." "Life is a tidal wave. It's a wave you're caught in and the waves have just taken me where they've taken me.

"I'm generally an abuser of deadlines. I'm so late with this Johnny Carson [biography] it's like I'm setting a new record for being late with a book. At this point I'm looking at the Guinness Book of World Records to see how many years it will have to be before I [set the record.]"

"The truth is, I have never written about a celebrity. I have always written about humans, replete with human traits and foibles and issues, who also happen to be famous."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 78, was an Allied Commander and two-term president of the United States between 1953 and 1961.

Quotable Quotes: "You don't lead by beating people over the head; that's assault, not leadership. Together we must learn to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."

"Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you."

"A man will respect you and perhaps even like you if you differ with him on issues and on principles. But if you ever challenge his motives, he will never forgive you. Nor should he."

Gordon E. Moore, 94, was the co-founder of Intel. He died Friday March 24, 2023.

Quotable Quotes:

"What I could see was that semiconductor devices were the way electronics were going to become cheap. That was the message I was trying to get across. It turned out to be an amazingly precise prediction — a lot more precise than I ever imagined it would be."

[Dow Chemical] sent me to a psychologist to see how this would fit. The psychologist said I was OK technically but I'd never manage anything."

"Fortunately, very much by luck, we had hit on a technology that had just the right degree of difficulty for a successful start-up. This was how Intel began."

"Long before Apple, one of our engineers came to me with the suggestion that Intel ought to build a computer for the home. And I asked him, 'What the heck would anyone want a computer for in his home?'"

On his own "Moore's Law" - "It can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens."

Saint Patrick was a 5th century British-born Christian missionary who was said to help convert the pagans of Ireland.

Quotable Quotes:

"Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me."

"The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough."

"I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many."