Costco Company Quotes & Sayings

Cyclists thus found their hobby not as pleasant as it could be, to say the least, and the League of American Wheelmen committed to doing something about it. A year after Fisher opened his store, the league launched a magazine, Good Roads, that became an influential mouthpiece for road improvement. Its articles were widely reprinted, which attracted members who didn't even own bikes; at the group's peak, Fisher and more than 102,000 others were on the rolls, and the Good Roads Movement was too big for politicians to ignore. Yes, the demand for roads was pedal-powered, and a national cause even before the first practical American car rolled out of a Chicopee, Massachusetts, shop in 1893. A few months ahead of the Duryea Motor Wagon's debut, Congress authorized the secretary of agriculture to "make inquiry regarding public roads" and to investigate how they might be improved. — Earl Swift

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor. It needs contemplation, fallow periods, the measured and guided study of the history of man's reiteration of the most agonizing question of all: Why? — John D. MacDonald

Home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations. — Laura Schlessinger

Have you heard of this thing called the Internet?" CSI yells into the echoing abyss. — Anonymous

I'm too rich to care what the critics say. — Mel Gibson

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. — Walker Percy

I ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going to learn from each other, and that's where they're going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place. — Russell Simmons

But suppose my eyes aren't blue enough? Blue enough for what? Blue enough for ... I don't know. Blue enough for something. Blue enough ... for you! — Toni Morrison

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. — Ann Richards

Blast-Ended Skrewts for a walk than — J.K. Rowling

Do I have to see movies and television about the English throne or the Holocaust every year? There are multiple multi-million dollar movies with the same backdrop. But our Holocaust - meaning Latino - aren't ever told. — Esai Morales

Our freedom is the way in which we are able to let the world open before us, and ourselves stand open within it. — William Barrett

God is glorified by our serving Him in our proper vocations. Take care, dear reader, that you do not forsake the path of duty by leaving your occupation, and take care you do not dishonour your profession while in it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. — J.R.R. Tolkien