Quotes About The Library Of Congress

#1. I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#2. I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Tom Clancy

#3. I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#4. I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.

Kevin Systrom

#5. Jefferson, who spent his life collecting books, many of which he donated to the Library of Congress, boasted that America was the only country whose farmers read Homer. "A native of America who cannot read or write," said John Adams, "is as rare an appearance ... as a Comet or an Earthquake.

Azar Nafisi

#6. I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.

Pete Seeger

#7. I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

Tom Glazer

#8. I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there was in this country that you never heard on the radio.

Pete Seeger

#9. Jefferson had his own privy just steps away from his bed alcove, one of three in the house proper.12 He used pieces of scrap paper for hygiene purposes.13 (Examples were collected from his privy by a family member on the day of Jefferson's death and now survive in the Library of Congress.)14 He

Jon Meacham

#10. I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

Paul Engle

#11. I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries. What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

David McCullough

#12. Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

Nate Silver

#13. [The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#14. 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.

Natasha Trethewey

#15. The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#16. Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

Mira Grant

#17. There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Rita Dove

#18. Just days after the alleged rape, Florida newspapers were calling for capital punishment of the Groveland Boys. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Visual Materials from the NAACP Records)

Gilbert King

#19. Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage.

Doris Lessing

#20. Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.

Lionel Richie

#21. Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't - if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes - then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.

Robert Jordan

#22. If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. For sad if obvious reasons, women (especially white women who are seduced by access to the powerful) are the only discriminated-against group whose members seem to think that, if they don't take themselves seriously, someone else will.

Gloria Steinem

#24. All our knowledge originates in opinion.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#25. If Terrell Owens is really depressed or mentally unstable, why do the people I love use it as an excuse to talk badly about him?

Matthew Quick

#26. Zero is the biggest secret of the universe.

Rajesh Walecha

#27. Lord knows I'm not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don't want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on!

Kim Fields

#28. I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels ... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#29. It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination.

S.A. Tawks