Millicent Library Quotes & Sayings

We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers. — Jochen Zeitz

When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world? — A Meredith Walters

When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of Spring's flowering meads; when learning stripped the Earth of her mantle of beauty, and poets sang no more save of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone forever, there was a man who travelled out of life on a quest into the spaces whither the world's dreams had fled. — H.P. Lovecraft

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement. — Rose Schneiderman

Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source. — Mary Morrissey

My poor clothes are going to wonder where they live. They have been transported back and forth to this place on numerous occasions. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
[Letter to the Millicent (Rogers) Library, February 22, 1894] — Mark Twain

The mind of a child is like a kiss on the forehead - open and disinterested — Patti Smith

If everyone did what they were capable of, they would astound themselves! — Marco Robinson

In the years after the death of Petrus, Hillegond had refused all offers of marriage, certain that her knowledge of men, despite her uncountable intimate encounters with them, was seriously bescrewed. Further, she grew certain from a recurring nightmare that should she ever consider a man as a second spouse, he would strangle her in her bed with a ligature. — William Kennedy

We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant. — Oswald Spengler

Human desire tends to be insatiable. — Alan W. Watts

If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars. — Laura Bradford

The most beautiful women in the world were African. — Martin Cruz Smith

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race. — Oscar Robertson

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do. — Ezra Taft Benson