Archive Quote by Sara Sheridan

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has…

— Sara Sheridan

Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

— Claire Tomalin

“Upon finding the letter, I had one of those out of body experiences that come only after poring over archival material for nine hours…

— Jay Kirk

In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a whole series…

— Manning Marable

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

— Michael Moore

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally…

— C. Everett Koop

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

— Henry David Thoreau

My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good grades, I…

— Hubert de Givenchy

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of…

— Eric Drooker

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

— Barbara Tuchman

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that…

— Tom Berenger

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the…

— Marshall McLuhan