Richard Riordan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.
-- Richard Riordan

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I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do not believe that government should dictate wages. We have seen this fail in Socialist and Communist countries. It will do irreparable harm.
-- Richard Riordan

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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!
Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
Every death is like the burning of a library.

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