Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.” — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Libraries were havens for everyone, he might've told her, not just the clean and productive.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” — Harold Howe Copy Share Image
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough” — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully… — James Billington Copy Share Image
Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
“The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
“ Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai,… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to… — Arthur Curley Copy Share Image
“One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that the definition of library has changed. Libraries have never been repositories solely of books. In Alexandria for instance,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford Copy Share Image
“If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.” — Wendell Ford Copy Share Image
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them! — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
