Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're aware of the city's interest in keeping the regional archives in Fort Worth.

Tom Robbins

As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

The Yugoslav forces, so we are learning, are destroying the archives of the Kosovar people: property deeds, marriage licenses, birth certificates, financial and other records.

Christopher Bailey

It's a big celebration but I wanted to work with the archives into the future.

It was the collection that put (the university's) special collections and archives on the map. I knew about the archives here through the work that Neal had done.

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I spent months digging through our archives looking for unique photos of Glacier National Park. With the help of former editor Brian Kennedy and Patsi Morton (Ruder's daughter) I was able to come up with a truly unique book. Some of these gems haven't seen print in 60 years. Some were never published at all. This book was a lot of fun to put together. About half of the photos in the book are from the Ruder era, which only makes sense, since Ruder, the founder of the Hungry Horse News owned the newspaper for more than half of its 60 years.

We've had a tsunami and a flood. People are more tuned in, I think, than they may have been, The archives are not going away.

There's probably other hidden treasures in archives throughout the community. The community needs to recognize how many hidden treasures we have here. They're literally everywhere.

Tom Robbins

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

Certainly, auctioneers know how to identify government documents, but that does not always stop them from trying to sell them. What they don't know is whether these documents were part of the National Archives at one time or should be part of the National Archives.

Honesty is a long lost art form resigned to the archives of famous quotes and a few lone ducks in a pond of hypocrites.

Ellen Goodman

How did we end the summer ... stuck between a Roberts and a hard place? We've spent months poring over 60,000 pages from the National Archives and reams of personal profiles for clues about how John Roberts would rule on the highest court in land. ... The bottom line is that barring some last minute photo of John Roberts popping out of a cake at a KKK rally smoking crack, he's going to be confirmed. And if he were magically derailed, who would be next? ... John Roberts may turn out to be as far right as People for the American Way says. But he may also be as good as it gets under this administration.

Hayden Christensen

Last time I was here, I went up to the archives and got shown around, and there was the dark helm, ... I asked if I could put it on and get a picture, which is pretty funny, because I'm wearing this gray track suit and had this enormous helmet on which is just completely disproportionate.

The archives are an extremely important facet of the settlement because what the survivors and their families were looking for in this case was not only the monetary restitution, but historic accountability.

Joan Anderson

We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and use it.

I think tape's going to be around a long time, but it's being repositioned. We're still going to need tape to hold older backups and longer term archives because it's still the most inexpensive way to do that. The difference is that tape will be the second tier of backups, not the first tier anymore.

Natasha Trethewey

On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

Nathaniel Philbrick

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

David Allen

Thousands of executives and professionals and homemakers have their own automatic labelers, ... and my archives are full of their comments, like, 'Incredible -- I wouldn't have believed what a difference it makes!' the labeler will be used to label your file folders, binder spines and numerous other things.

We got to play to a crowd of Lucasfilm, LucasArts and ILM employees straight after their work hours and it was surprisingly good fun, ... Our song 'Clones' from Republic Commando and our cover of ' Cantina Band ' went down like a storm. We had props of Darth Vader , a stormtrooper and R2-D2 brought out of the archives and put on stage with us, as we played a short half hour set. Artoo is well aware he's my favorite so he obviously had to hang out stage left.

Using that one slip of paper, and knowing my great grandmother's and great grandfather's names, I was able to go to the National Archives and trace the family through the census.

Allen Weinstein

Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built.

RESEARCHING THE GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF SACRAMENTO CITY AND COUNTY ARCHIVES

I plan to work very closely with the University Of Arkansas System, the Clinton Foundation and the National Archives in building on a great partnership.

I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.

Tessa Jowell

Taken together, the archives of broadcasters are as much a part of our postwar popular culture as the Beatles or Harry Potter,

It's going to be the archives and it's going to be the generational copies that they never get back.

Thom Browne

Since Brooks Brothers is a 189-year-old company, there are plenty of references and inspirations I can draw from their archives and catalogs. The wearer of Black Fleece may not be all that different from mine, in that I imagine that it would be someone who is a true individual, and independent thinker. This is for both men and women.

The CIA has worked hand in glove with the National Archives over the years on declassification and welcomes this initiative.

The C.I.A. has worked hand in glove with the National Archives over the years on declassification and welcomes this initiative.

The historical importance of the survival of these archives cannot be overestimated, ... one of the nation's great historical treasures.

Dan Hill

While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.