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Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.


Laura Bush


#palestine-public-library #quote #texas #age

Charged with the mission of operating beyond the boundaries of civilization with minimal support and no communication from higher authority, they lived and often died by the motto, 'Order first, then law will follow.


Thomas W. Knowles


#wild-west #communication

There’s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.


Conrad Hilton


#dreams

Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.


Jeannette Walls


#truth #turn-of-the-century-texas #life

At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her. The same thing happened almost every day. Some days they came so close all she could smell was the rain. The wind whipped up dust from the fields until it drove like buckshot into the shuddering mesquites, and Clara Nell started to pray. 'Jesus,' she whispered. 'Jesus, Jesus....' But the only thing that came out of the sky was her topsoil. Every day the wind took a little more, and it hadn't rained in almost a year.


Andrew Geyer


#drought #emotional-pain #farming #heat #rural-life

You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can’t stop a good man".


John Paul Warren


#character #conferences #john-paul-warren #men #men-conferences

Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!" Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero


Rick Riordan


#earth #freak #heo #heroes #hilarious

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.


Ed Gillespie


#could #early #george #george w #i

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.


George Carlin


#executions #fewer #good #know #part