Top 1200 Public Library Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

I don't think the fact that something occurs in public or in private matters at all to obstruction of justice. I mean, if I publicly threaten the prosecutor who's investigating me, I don't think it'd be a particularly compelling defense to say, 'Oh, I did it in public.'

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.

When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and on records, it's easy to insulate one's self from the public; that's why I think I wouldn't care to be a television performer, particularly in the States, where TV stardom is so intimate.

While government and public-health advocates strive to educate the public, and prevent disease, the food industry frequently acts in opposition to those goals, producing processed foods that are high in sugar, salt, artificial ingredients and calories.

I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.

How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.

Taxpayers should demand that their states honestly assess public pension plans, accurately measure the assets and liabilities, and take steps to provide fair benefits to public employees that limit taxpayers' liability.

I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of House members and 51 percent of senators with school-age children enrolled them in private schools in 2001. Public school teachers enroll their children in private schools to a much greater extent than the general public, in some cities close to 50 percent.

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

I think the federal Liberals' micro-tinkering is not causing any kind of upsurge in public confidence. The challenge for Conservatives is how to not get caught in the same web. I mean, the public just discounts what political people and parties say.

In India, all public servants employed by the central or a state government or any other public authority under their control are required under the relevant civil service rules to submit returns of movable and immovable assets owned by them and their immediate family.

If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It is more and more important to make the cities inviting, so we can meet our fellow citizens face to face and experience directly through our senses. Public life in good quality public spaces is an important part of a democratic life and a full life.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

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.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.