Observance Holiday Quotes & Sayings

Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways they define a society and the values of that society. Librarians to me are the keepers of the flame of knowledge. When I was growing up, the librarian in my local library looked like a meek little old lady, but after you spent some time with her, you realized she was Athena with a sword, a wise and wonderful repository of wisdom. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

I can't describe how it felt, being there right then, so close together, on the edge between who we were and who we wanted to be. — Ava Dellaira

The rumble of a subway train,
the rattle of the taxis. — Al Dubin

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader. — Indro Montanelli

It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription! — T.D. Jakes

It's important to be able to distinguish the difference between a problem and an inconvenience. — Carrie Fisher

I'm not homophobic. — Alex Meraz

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use. — Dan Lipinski

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story. — Gary Allan

Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias. — Pauli Murray

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. — James Broughton

A lot of unpredictable things happened in the Republican party, but I think the notion that we're gonna demonize Donald Trump or we're gonna mischaracterize him is completely unfair. — Anthony Scaramucci

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs. — Victor Hugo

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free. — Henry Fielding

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades. — Che Guevara