Repositories Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible…
— Malcolm Forbes
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Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the…
— Edna O'Brien
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Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
— Glen Cook
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The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure…
— Martin Filler
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We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing…
— Carl Sagan
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin…
— Maya Angelou
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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
— Samuel Johnson
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
— Ian Hislop
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
— Marshall McLuhan
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The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater…
— Steven Pinker
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Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are…
— George Will
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Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of…
— Sugata Mitra
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Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their…
— Conrad Hilton
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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Repositories Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Repositories Quotes as follows: