Friday, January 04, 2013 3:01 am
Quotations of the day
By The Associated Press
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"I was never so excited to see my children and, certainly, to see my children get off the bus. There was a shared joy." - Nick Phelps, a father of two students at Sandy Hook Elementary School, after they returned home from their first day back at class since the mass shooting.
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"Here we have a piece of Mars that I can hold in my hands. That's really exciting." - Carl Agee, director of the Institute of Meteoritics, on 2-billioin-year-old meteorite discovered in the Sahara desert.