Today is Friday, January 6th, 2017; Karen's Korner #3475

Each year OUR IOWA magazine publishes an annual calendar complete with beautiful photos taken from across Iowa. Including on each month are quotes and comments by significant Iowans, many times from the past. Here are a few of them (my apologies to readers from outside Iowa!):


"I seemed to have a vision....I saw the Christ and the cross inseparable."

~ George Bernard, minister and compose who wrote the hymn 'The Old Rugged Cross', from Albia

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"I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct."

~ Jerry Mathers, star of TV's 'Leave it to Beaver", from Sioux City

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"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."

~ Grant Wood, artist, from Anamosa

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"The real secret of success is enthusiasm."

~ Walter P. Chrysler, founder of automaker Chrysler Corporation, from Oelwein

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"Life is never easy for those who dream."

~ Ralph James Waller, author of 'The Bridges of Madison County', from Rockford

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