New York Public Library Sidewalk Quotes & Sayings

The Missouri of his childhood was theoretically the inspiration for Main Street, U.S.A., though only in its halcyon summer vacation months and stripped of any dismal memories: no blizzards, no doctor's office, and no school-house. Almost no one has a dismal experience in Walt Disney's America, as a matter of fact, at least not that Walt noticed. — Eve Zibart

when you conclude a paper, you should always close a door and open a window — Benjamin K. Bergen

By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home. — Leon Brown

A pig in a blanket is a hot dog wrapped in a dough and baked. — N.D. Wilson

In a revolution, one triumphs or dies. — Che Guevara

There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background. — Brian O'Driscoll

Now, though, the command he gave made two vaguenesses congeal into one threat, distant, amorphous, but unmistakable, as when, against a background of city dawn and back alley clatter, one click and one clack come together into the telltale click-clack of a ready gun, and echo won't tell you whether the enemy's perch is left, or right, or high, or low, only that it is near. — Ada Palmer

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do. — Greg Saunier

But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth. — Empedocles

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy. — James Madison

Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that. — John Sandford