Peter Zenger Sayings

#1. Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.

C.S. Friedman

#2. My Day Clothes are almost worne out ... send the poor printer a few gammons, or some meal, some butter, cheese, poultry, etc.

John Peter Zenger

#3. A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.

David Novak

#4. Take heart, Maya. As a bookseller, I assure you that prizewinning can be somewhat important for sales but rarely matters much in terms of quality.

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. Did that ever happen to you? You think someone is really important and different, but then you get to know them and it ruins everything? Do you know what I'm talking about?

Matthew Quick

#6. Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

John Peter Zenger

#7. A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

Weili Dai

#8. The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.

John Peter Zenger

#9. The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

A.D. Posey

#10. With you ... I can understand why men have waged wars over women in history.

Melissa Petreschock

#11. My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Toyin Odutola

#12. A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

#13. No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

John Peter Zenger

#14. They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.

Wallace Stevens

#15. When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.

Elizabeth Gaskell