183 Quotes About Newspapers


  • Author Ben Bradlee
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    But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.

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  • Author Katharine Graham
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    What the president never accepted, or even clearly understood – as most people don't understand – is the autonomy editors have, and must have, to produce a good newspaper. I used to describe it as liberty, not license.

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  • Author زكي نجيب محمود
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    كلما ضاقت دائرة أهتمامات الناس في مجتمع ما جاءت صحفهم ملونة بلون إقليمي محلي أنها نشرات أما إذا إتسع الأفق و إرتفعت الثقافة نشرت الصحب بالتالي شِباكها حول العالم وأهملت الصغائر من أخبار الأفراد

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  • Author H. L. Mencken
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    The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer.

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  • Author Mary Oliver
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    The Morning PaperRead one newspaper daily (the morning editionis the bestfor by evening you now that you at leasthave lived through another day)and let the disasters, the unbelievableyet approved decisionssoak in.I don't need to name the countries, ours among them.What keeps us from falling down, our facesto the ground; ashamed, ashamed?

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