Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Edward Abbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Adolf Hitler

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

Aesop

Pride goes before destruction.

David Lloyd

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

Amy Tan

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Amy Tan

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Anthea Turner

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Charles Bukowski

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

David Nicholls

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

Andy Goldsworthy

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

Alexander McCall Smith

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

E. Howard Hunt

I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.

E. M. Forster

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

Drew Carey

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Studs Terkel

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Storm Jameson

invaders always destroy libraries.

Stuart Pearce

Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)

Jerzy Kosinski

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Luanne Rice

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

Linda Sue Park

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

Terry Tempest Williams

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.