Top 1200 Public Library Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.

In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.

I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.

My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

There are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy, but that's because public opinion hasn't been turned into a political force.

Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

I started doing a Ph.D., and then I thought, 'I don't really want to spend all this time on my own in the library.'

We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service. Why should we accept from them a discourse which suggests contempt for us and for the democratic system?

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

I remember that children in my class would hate the English club, whereas I was always found in the library.

I'm public property, the public put me where I am. They own me.

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.

I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.

Whoever becomes Education Secretary has to have a love and passion for public schools. Not charter schools, not vouchers, but public schools.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.