Following is our list of the most famous smithsonian quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational smithsonian quotes. Hopefully, these smithsonian quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your smithsonian knowledge!
I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington. — Diane Kruger
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. — Renzo Piano
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. — Lewis H. Lapham
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — Robert Smithson
A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom. — Wendy Beckett
The biggest looters are the British Museum. — Lowkey
Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff. — William Thorsell
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. — Rudolf Bing
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it. — Robert Ballard
If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. — Tim Gunn
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. — Banksy
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are. — Steve Berry
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst. — Wallace Stegner
Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today. — Bob Dylan
Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display. — David Duchovny
Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct. — Gaylord Nelson
Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest. — Tim LaHaye
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art. — Xavier Becerra
If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.' — Padmasree Warrior
Ask any guy if sex is important in a relationship and the one who says no is lying. I just haven't met that guy yet. When you meet him, let's get him in to the Smithsonian - he's that special and rare. — Steve Harvey
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects. — Jack L. Chalker
I've always wanted to visit [Washington]. The Smithsonian has some fantastic archival material on blues music, which I'm really into. There's a ton of stuff I want to do there. but it just never happened. — Dylan Moran
The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States. — Norm Dicks
I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters. — Joe Mantegna
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian. — Ajay Naidu
When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. — Gloria Steinem
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen? — Tommy Lasorda
As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans. — Xavier Becerra
Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq. — Ted Rall
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
Answering criticism that the book for which he won a Pulitzer Prize was written in the years he had been employed at the Smithsonian. He specified that did not write on the premises there, but only at home outside of working hours. — Daniel J. Boorstin
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of smithsonian quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about smithsonian to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of smithsonian quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
.jpg)
