“Once I've mastered the art of pretending that I don't care what other kids think of me, I start to pay attention… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the… — Timothy Healy Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture… — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
“I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the… — John Robert Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world… — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Copy Share Image
“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and… — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In… — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent.… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
“I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart… — Josie Brown Copy Share Image
“Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“He had spoken in a whisper and she answered in one – though perhaps not how he had expected. “Do you not… — Emily Murdoch Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its… — Kim Boykin Copy Share Image
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
“The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts,… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not working in libraries is very similar to working on an ambulance or a fire truck. You take care… — Lori Reed Copy Share Image
Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries…But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves,… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
“Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit… — Alan Gibson Copy Share Image
Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
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