Public Library Quotes

Public Library Quote of the day

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

The public library is the great equaliser.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

The best place to find things: the public library.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Don't forget to support your public library.

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

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

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.

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.

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Freedom is a public library.

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

I am a public library

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.