Book Quote by Dee Brown Download Open image “The librarians know the secrets, not the historians” — Dee Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Historian History Knows Librarian Library Library books Secret
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“The library sucked up sound like a vacuum. All of those thousands and thousands of unread books sucking up secrets for the last hundred… — Michael Sears Copy Share Image
“Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field and Stream magazines. They… — Erica Olsen Copy Share Image
“You see, Brother William,” the abbot said, “to achieve the immense and holy task that enriches those walls”—and he nodded toward the bulk of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“The truth is out there, but the truth also seems to be very subjective. With access to so many types of information, there is… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Librarians are the bedrock of the public domain and the defenders of our fundamental right to access knowledge.” — Carl Malamud Copy Share Image
“...one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever p**s one off.” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“I heard him call to the people not to be afraid, that the soldiers would not hurt them; then the troops opened fire from… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control."… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. —STEPHEN VINCENT BENET” — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“It is too often the case,” Crook said, “that border newspapers … disseminate all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians, which are… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“Before these laws could be put into effect, a new wave of white settlers swept westward and formed the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa.… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“mainland of America, the Wampanoags of Massasoit and King Philip had vanished, along with the Chesapeakes, the Chickahominys, and the Potomacs of the great… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades,… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“Not all of Anthony’s officers, however, were eager or even willing to join Chivington’s well-planned massacre. Captain Silas Soule, Lieutenant Joseph Cramer, and Lieutenant… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image