Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

George Lucas

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Dear me, how I love a library.

Linda Sue Park

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

Karl Popper

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Paula Spencer

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

Peter Porter

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

Pete Hamill

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

Rabindranath Tagore

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Maggie Stiefvater

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

Hamid Karzai

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only object of liberty is life.

John Marshall

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create....

John Lothrop Motley

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

John Lubbock

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

John Locke

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Judith Martin

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Katharine Graham

Truth and news are not the same thing.

Kate Mosse

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

John Kenneth Galbraith

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Kami Garcia

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

Patrick Carman

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

Nick Bostrom

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

Paul Begala

Well, I have a message for the nameless , gutless whimperers out there. Quit whining. Unlike some other shows, we here at CROSSFIRE actually present both sides of the issue. ... Look, if you want namby-pamby one-sided arguments go to Fox.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Mary Higgins Clark

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Pat Conroy

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Joseph Sobran

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

Joseph Sobran

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Joseph Stalin

The United States should get rid of its militias.

Noam Chomsky

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.