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'Your Inspirational Quote' for Thursday

Your Inspirational Quote
Thursday February 26, 2009

Did you know...

... that today is the birthday of Grand Canyon National Park?
Congress established the Park in 1919. The Grand Canyon is over
277 miles long and a mile deep and was created more than
six million years ago.

~~~

Today's Inspirational Quote:

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I
could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got
to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had
learned in seven years."

-- Mark Twain

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