Hummingbird Weekly Quote. 2025 Edition.

Editor’s Note:  Hummingbird is pleased to continue our collection of eminently quotable people and their thoughts. Each week a new one will be added. The quote might be ripped out of today’s headlines, or possibly sage words from writers we have known over time. Regardless, the purpose is to engage and entertain you--to present something you might agree or disagree with; maybe laugh (or cry) about.  

March 10, 2025
“We have 80 agencies and firefighting crews and agents and individuals all over working to put up a wet line, as you say, because wet line is our best defense against this spreading. Now, this is no guarantee. We're in a better place right now, but we are very concerned about the overnight and the increase of winds.

“All those images of what happened in the Palisades are so front and center in our minds. We need to be proactive, preventative, and try to stop the worst from occurring with all the power that we have, and that's exactly what we're doing.” NY State Governor Kathy Hochul

March 3, 2025
"Like everybody who has ever shared a scene with him, I learned he was a generous performer whose gifts elevated everyone's work. He received two Oscars, but, more importantly, he won the hearts of film lovers all over the world. Gene always said: 'I don't think about legacy. I just hope people remember me as someone who tried to do good work.' So I think I speak for us all when I say: Gene, you'll be remembered for that — and for so much more. Rest in peace, my friend." Morgan Freeman

February 24, 2025
“Roberta Flack underplays everything with a quietness and gentleness. More than any singer I know, she can take a quiet, slow song (and most of hers are) and infuse it with a brooding intensity that is, at times, almost unbearable.” She had an “amazing ability to get further inside a song than one thought humanly possible and to bring responses from places inside you that you never knew existed.” Julius Lester, Writer and Folklorist (Rolling Stone Review, 2003) 

Febrary 17, 2025
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.” Pope Francis

February 10, 2025
"I'll be lifted up through the clouds
On the wings of an angel." Levon Helm

February 3, 2025
"WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID." Donald J. Trump, President, USA

January 27, 2025
"It's not the result we were looking for. But I'm very proud of those guys. They fought, they gave it everything they had. They just came up a little short tonight against a very good football team.

"We had some plays where I thought we had a chance to convert a fourth down, a fourth and short, and then another fourth down at the end of the game. It looked like we had a chance to come back, but it didn't work out." Sean McDermott, Head Coach, Buffalo Bills

January 20, 2025
"All year this team has heard we got no talent, we're too small, we can't stop the run, we're not good enough to compete. We just put our heads down and worked hard." Josh Allen, Quarterback, Buffalo Bills

January 13, 2025
"As the fire still rages on and Cal Fire and the Los Angeles Fire Department and all the available first responders and agencies involved in fighting fire and saving lives are still hard at work and neighbors and friends are banding together to save each other, my husband and I and our children have pledged $1 million from our Family Foundation to start a fund of support for our great city and state and the great people who live and love there."  Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress, One of Many Supporting the L.A. Community

January 6, 2025
“I do believe very strongly that America’s democracy is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it — every single person, their willingness to fight for and respect the importance of our democracy. Otherwise, it is very fragile and it will not be able to withstand moments of crisis. And today, America’s democracy stood.” Kamala Harris, Vice President, USA

December 31, 2024
"Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing gonna be alright" Bob Marley

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