Smithsonian Museum Quotes & Sayings

People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people. — Cesar Millan

I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I do's, perpetually wishing for someone to share my life with? Where the fuck was the alcohol? — Stephanie Klein

I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family. — Kate Hudson

The barren times of life acts as places of refuge where we encounter God in ways we could never imagine. Here is the one place where we can truly abandon ourselves and totally come to rely upon God. On opening up ourselves we become alert to hear his voice giving us direction and guidance to make the next step forward. — Jean John

She didn't bother taking off her snow-crusted cloak; she came to us quickly, dripping and shivering, her eyes luminous and strained from trying to see beyond the world. — Patricia A. McKillip

The body is a museum for memories. I am the Smithsonian. — Wheston Chancellor Grove

She had read enough lives of the poetesses to know all about inpatient psychiatric care. — Nell Zink

On February 8, 1928, known as Lindbergh day since it was the day he crossed the Atlantic Ocean the year before, Charles A. Lindbergh landed at the Campo Columbia airfield near Havana. Lindbergh had visited many countries in his plane, and he had the national flags of each country painted in the fuselage. Having flown from Haiti, on a Goodwill Tour of the Caribbean in his "Spirit of St. Louis," he had the Cuban flag painted on his a single-engine Ryan monoplane. It was the last country he visited before he donated the "Spirit of St. Louis" to the Smithsonian Institution, where it is still exhibited at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. — Hank Bracker

Yet we choose to remember history very selectively, favoring foresight over failure. — Thomas Rid

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly. — Victor Hugo

The devil will tell you nine truths, so that you'll believe one lie. — Shannon Mayer

Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen is ten stories tall and wraps around you. The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museu, the popular museum on Earth, has premiered in its Langley Theater some of the best of these films. 'To Fly' brings a catch to my throat even after five or six viewings. I've seen religious leaders of many denominations witness 'Blue Planet' and be converted on the spot to the need to protect the Earth's environment — Carl Sagan

Like a priest carrying home their first computer after hearing about child pornography on the internet, I was practically foaming at the mouth in anticipation during the drive to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. — David Thorne

O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating. — Jim Rash