Famous Quotes & Sayings

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Beverly Cleary

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Deb Caletti

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Bill Moyers

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Bill Watterson

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

Bud Schmidt

We're going to get a new library here.

Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Charles Dickens

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Demi Moore

You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

Elizabeth Edwards

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

Ahmet Ertegun

It is a great life, this life of music,

Bruce Lee

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

Andrew Vachss

If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Live it well and this life can be grand.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

Henrik Ibsen

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

Katie Simons

What has kept it current all these years is that it's so true to family relationships and the way we hurt the people who are closest to us.

Shawn Rojeski

We're getting fantastic response on our Web site, e-mails from all over the U.S. in places that definitely don't have curling clubs. We have piles of them that are actually looking for the closest curling club because they're so intrigued by watching everything.

Anton Corbijn

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Kris Kristofferson

The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Jason Mraz

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Jason Mraz

My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Todd Rundgren

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality of a concert into more of a lifestyle thing.

Donald Powell

This program allows states' leaders -- who are closest to the people -- to decide exactly how this grant money should be spent.

Gioconda Belli

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.