Quote of the day
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
Mary Robinson
Born: May 21, 1944 (age 78)
Bio: Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.
Known for:
- A Voice for Human Rights
- Memoirs of Mary Robinson, Perdita
- Beaux and Belles of England
- Poems, 1791
- You Are a Success! (1991)