Top 1200 Public Library Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.
Maybe they're not 'books,' but 'Acme Novelty Library' and 'Eightball' are two comics I can't get enough of.
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.
Allowing the big dogs to create a toll lane for public education, public interest and government programming, and to make it more costly to sell products online, will be bad for Black women and our communities.
I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.
I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.
I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the library!
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.
I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.
Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?
In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free.
One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.
I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!
I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.
I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.
To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
Sick leave should be used to cover the costs of paying people who work in the public service who are sick, and that we can deliver that to our public servants while making it affordable for Canadian taxpayers.
There was a time when a company could not sell its shares to the public unless its revenues were growing and it was turning a profit. Companies that lost money were deemed too risky for public investors.
People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated against employment, barred from public housing, and denied other public benefits.
Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.
If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.
Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public. Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.
The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.
I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention.
Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix Médicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it.
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
In Bronxville, New York, we went to public school there, before London. Mother had a great belief in public school. She said it was very good for us to meet all the neighborhood kids.
Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
I always said it was my ambition to have a library - I have one - and my dream was to have a pool. Then 'Strictly' came along.
