Libraries Quotes

A library — a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!

Books are carnival rides for your imagination.

We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.

Elizabeth sank into the leather wing chair in the library of her mind and began to read.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

I am proud to say that I am not in it for the money. If I made a million dollars, I would donate most of it to various charities and libraries.

There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.

There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...

I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better

The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers.

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.

Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library

The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means.

You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives.

A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.

I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library.

The library was the best place in the world.

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.

I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining, ’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of li

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many r

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.

THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!