Library Quotes

Your library is your portrait.

— Holbrook Jackson

The library is my cathedral.

— Barbara Bretton

“The famed library of Montserrat,”

— Dan Brown

Your library is your paradise.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Libraries are our friends.

— Neil Gaiman

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

— Bob Dylan

Reading is seeing by proxy.

— Herbert Spencer

“To read is to renew thy mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“You can tell a lot by the size of a mans library”

— Chloe Neill

“… no place is more filled with imagined voices than a library.”

— Wayne C. Booth

“A library is treasure chamber of knowledge.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

— Thomas Jefferson

“She did not need a library; she was a library.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job.

— John Berry

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

— Nick Cave

“A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.”

— John Hill Burton

“Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.”

— Robertson Davies

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in…

— Gore Vidal

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

— Linda Sue Park

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

“A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .”

— Umberto Eco

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

— Anonymous

I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more…

— David Mandel

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

— Haruki Murakami

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there…

— Terry Pratchett

Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and…

— John W. Henry

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything.…

— Stephen King

“Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the…

— L.M. Montgomery

“A library is such a potent symbol of a town's values: each one closed down might as well be six thousand stickers…

— caitlin moran

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out…

— Larry McMurtry

“A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but…

— Thomas Jefferson

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it…

— Arthur Ashe

“Every girl who aspires ultimately to outfit her own home should assemble a library on architectural styles and on furniture both traditional…

— Johnson O'Connor

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We…

— Katherine Paterson

I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and…

— Alex Haley

Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a…

— Michael Ondaatje

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right…

— Erin Morgenstern

“He wrote a book, Libraries of the Future, in which he described a world where library resources would be available to remote…

— Annie Jacobsen