July 30

July 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Charles Babbage
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when — but just saying it could even make it happen. ~ Kate Bush (born 30 July 1958)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear. ~ Emily Brontë ~ (born 30 July 1818)
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Just being alive It can really hurt. These moments given Are a gift from time. Just let us try To give these moments back To those we love To those who will survive. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * I don't know you, And you don't know me. It is this that brings us together. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you're not afraid to feel? Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.  ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * With wide-embracing love Thy Spirit animates eternal years, Pervades and broods above, Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears. Though earth and moon were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.  There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou —THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed. ~ Emily Brontë ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
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 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017


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 * 2018


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 * 2019


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 * 2020


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 * 2021


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 * 2022


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 * 2023


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 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
''The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again. - Elvis Presley -'' Interview (March/April, 1972)
 * 3 --Revera 09:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC) (30 July 1954 was the date Elvis Presley made his debut as a public performer).
 * 2 Zarbon 15:09, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:47, 28 July 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 23:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Even more so now where you've got this sort of truly silly preoccupation with celebrities. Just because somebody's been in an ad on TV, so what? Who gives a toss? ~ Kate Bush
 * 2 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

''You and me on the bobbing knee. Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read! I will come home again, but not until The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.'' ~ Kate Bush ~
 * 2 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

''How I'm moved. How you move me With your beauty's potency.'' ~ Kate Bush ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

My terrible fear of dying No longer plays with me, for now I know that I'm needed For the symphony. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 23:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. ~ Emily Brontë
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 03:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even a 4 eventually.

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. ~ Emily Brontë
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 03:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it. ~ Emily Brontë
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 03:18, 28 July 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:38, 4 April 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but more likely than not there is much by Kate Bush I will long find preferable.

Two-thirds of the Earth lies beneath more than 1,000 feet of water. It's a vast and largely unexplored frontier.. . . This is the longest submarine mountain range in the world, the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge. It wraps around our globe like the seam on a baseball. The past is another planet, but most of us don't really know this one. ~ In commemoration of the 30 July 1920 birth of Marie Tharp, from the ninth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:08, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:07, 29 July 2017 (UTC) if honoring Tharp, would prefer to quote her or at least a quote specifically about her.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 29 July 2021 (UTC)