Cass County Public Library Quotes

#1. Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

#2. If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.

John C. Maxwell

#3. If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime.

Martin Gardner

#4. Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

Nicole Krauss

#5. One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

Ray Lewis

#6. So it's possible I might be dating Batman.

John Goode

#7. I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit.

Jeff Van Gundy

#8. When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.

Ben Carson

#9. Most stories finish at the end.
But not this one.
This one finishes with a whole new beginning.

Emma Chase

#10. Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.

Erma Bombeck

#11. Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak;

Willard Mullin

#12. Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall

Kimberly McCreight

#13. Don't let your life become a shopping festival, where people come, stays a while, explore around and blend in somewhere else. It's your life, not a Flipkart Sale.

Sarvesh Jain

#14. Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.

Alice Miller

#15. Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.

Napoleon Hill