Library Quotes

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

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.

A library is thought in cold storage.

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.

More people should use their library.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.