Libraries Quotes

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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

The library is the temple of learning.

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.