Chiefs Quote by Jorge Luis Borges Download Open image “If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,” — Jorge Luis Borges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chiefs Events Father Ifs Library Life Names Parenting Should
“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm a name that can be as a co-main event or a main event and people want to see. — Demian Maia Copy Share Image
“There are only three important events to history; by important I mean that these three events eclipse all others. These three events, I believe,… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was. — John Irving Copy Share Image
My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years. — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
“Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious… — Bob Tyrrell Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might… — Arthur Hopkins Copy Share Image
The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent. — Wes Smith Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
![“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them." [ Letter to the Millicent (Rogers) Library , February 22, 1894]” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f36/mark-twain-22_libraries_a-public-library-is-the-most-enduring-of_1508750.jpg)
