The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast...
LEON KRIER Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over paper...
ROBERT DALLEK If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.
SUSAN EISENHOWER She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands f...
SARAH DESSEN It's not an imposed idea at all. Not like the Washington Monument, an Egyptian idea. Not like the Je...
LAWRENCE HALPRIN Some presidential libraries are so celebratory that they verge on propaganda.
BENJAMIN HUFBAUER Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
SARAH VOWELL The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum is in my county board district. I'm not going around claimin...
SAM CAHNMAN It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, th...
JOSEPH PULITZER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Sometimes they say, He doesnt act presidential. And I say, with the exception of the late, gre...
DONALD TRUMP To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregna...
RON FOURNIER You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh...
MARY ESSELMAN I thought he did a great job at Jefferson. They were always feisty as heck. It will not be the same ...
EARL GARCIA A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
ADA HUXTABLE Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.
ADA HUXTABLE The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
ADA HUXTABLE In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
ADA HUXTABLE Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor a...
ADA HUXTABLE Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
ADA HUXTABLE An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awf...
ADA HUXTABLE The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i...
ADA HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is je...
ADA HUXTABLE The data we get from that and over the next few days will go toward justification for a presidential...
ED TEIXEIRA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I thi...
ROBERT MCCHESNEY Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, an...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY VIEW FROM A HILL
I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM The memorial committee received over 10,000 suggestions for memorials to Diana, Princess of Wales.
GORDON BROWN There will be an awareness event at the Lincoln Memorial (Saturday) from 11 to 1, and the quilts wil...
ANNE TYSON I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
DAVID HERBERT DONALD We will now offer a single set of APIs, libraries and programming tools for everything from systems ...
ERIK TROAN We will now offer a single set of APIs, libraries and programming tools for everything from systems ...
ERIK TROAN Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. W...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affec...
JON MEACHAM Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA A father said to his son, "When Abe Lincoln was your age, he was studying
books by the light of the ...
UNKNOWN Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.
DAVID AXELROD In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years ...
REED HASTINGS Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose...
ADALBERT STIFTER You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.
GINA GREENLEE My dear Sir.
Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at an...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN This is the kind of platform we've been looking for a long time. Libraries digitize their stuff and ...
DANIEL GREENSTEIN This is the kind of platform we've been looking for a long time, ... Libraries digitize their stuff ...
DANIEL GREENSTEIN People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find mys...
HENRY ROLLINS The sperm donor that impregnated my mother (with me), passed away. Please, stop sending me private m...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ The chance to do it over again is called now.
J.R. RIM 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA I'm sure in some form they'll be tough. Jefferson comes from the Concorde, which is great in basebal...
GALVIN MORRIS This is like a pre-state event. It really shows the girls what and who is out there. It lets them kn...
JEAN ANDERSON The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To vie...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) If you come to help us,for the moment,you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing ...
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA It's time to do it. With the changes in technology, it's time. All presidential libraries change the...
WARREN FINCH Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ...
ANNE HERBERT If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
GERALD R. FORD If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON This is the story of our age and it has to be covered from every angle and the only way you do that ...
HART SEELY If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing...
RICK SANTELLI What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON This is really exciting for the girls. And, any time you can come up to Jefferson City and beat them...
BRYCE SWAFFORD To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jeffers...
JOHN F. KENNEDY If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
DICK GREGORY All kinds of kids from New York and stuff and me from Jefferson, Maine.
JOSH JONES 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:
1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
GERMANY KENT Life will always give you a sum of what you worth, that is if you think you are worth the sum...
PHILIP T. M. The concrete for the ramps has been poured to provide an ADA-compliant slope and the landscaping wil...
NORM CHAMBERS Presidential standing is always a factor with any nomination that is so highly visible and so symbol...
NAN ARON To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of d...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE This is more than a success story. It is a dream come true.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor a...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awf...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is je...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE A discreet study in expensive nonostentation.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going...
JOE GREEN Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN Instead of keeping it in private hands on some wall someplace, this will travel to schools, to libra...
NORMAN LEAR It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
DAVID STRATHAIRN If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
GERALD R. FORD It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the r...
CYRIL CONNOLLY We do not have any government funds. We operate strictly on the proceeds of our clients and memorial...
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