Mecklenburg County Library Quotes & Sayings

Time is the only critic without ambition - John Steinbeck — Moll Molone

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas. — Robin Zander

I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut. — Marya Hornbacher

Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew? — Diana Gabaldon

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist. — Lisa Yuskavage

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. — Swami Vivekananda

From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you! — George Lopez

Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it. — John Milton

Under all my soft girl exterior, and inner demon, turns out I'm more girl than demon. A stupid girl it would seem. — Amy Lunderman

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. — Jonathan Miller

made from a lovely piece of Liberty fabric ordered years ago, not because Saffy had a project in mind, but because it was simply too beautiful not to possess. — Kate Morton

College isn't the place to go for ideas. — Helen Keller

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled. — Martin Luther