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Your Quotes for 31 October 2005 - Faces

Lincoln Borglum and his crew of 400 drillers, blasters, and chiselers completed their work on four sixty-foot-tall faces carved in the granite of Mount Rushmore on this day in 1941. Work had progressed intermittently, depending on weather and funding, since 1927 under the direction of his father, John Gutzon Borglum who died just seven months before the work was completed. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say the work was abandoned, they weren't through but the money had run out once again and George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln were staring resolutely out from the Black Hills of South Dakota. In light of this anniversary falling on the day millions of children will be traipsing from door to door with their faces masked, here are some thoughts on Faces.

Circumstances alter faces.
     - Carolyn Wells

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
     - Cynthia Ozick

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
     - James Arthur Baldwin, 1924 - 1987

As life runs on,
  the road grows strange
With faces new,
  - and near the end
The milestones into headstones change,
  'Neath every one a friend.
     - James Russell Lowell, 1819 - 1891

In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty.
     - William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
     - Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx, 1890 - 1977

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