Rourk Library Quotes

#1. Reflect that life, like every other blessing,
Derives its value from its use alone.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map.

Rory Stewart

#3. There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.

Ming-Na Wen

#4. I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

Andrew Cuomo

#5. You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#6. What's been happening?"
"Nothing... It's already happened

J.G. Ballard

#7. I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

Geraldo Rivera

#8. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Lou Holtz

#9. I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

Debbie Reynolds

#10. But as Ana pulled away on a west-bound highway with a werewolf riding shotgun and her thirst for blood calling yet again, she had this thought: Maybe a Misfit could never be normal, no matter how badly it wanted to.

Ayul Hendricks-Levy

#11. That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Umberto Eco

#12. Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Charles Spurgeon

#13. Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

Vincent Van Gogh

#14. He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. You're not crazy. I love you.

Lauren Hammond