Pruaccess Quotes & Sayings

All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open. — Mo Willems

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. — Jean Cocteau

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another. — Johann Lamont

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. — Wangari Maathai

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all. — Sophia Loren

I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly ... it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of our ... classes ... it's supposed to be a story about guilt and the dangers of civil disobedience, but when I first read it I thought it seemed kind of lame and melodramatic. Now I get it, though. Poe must have snuck out a lot when he was young. — Lauren Oliver

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I think that collectivization was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure and it was impossible to admit the error. To conceal the failure people had to be cured, by every means of terrorism, of the habit of thinking and judging for themselves, and forced to see what didn't exist, to assert the very opposite of what their eyes told them. — Boris Pasternak

The people who influence our presidents matter. — Paul Kengor