Library Quotes · Page 25

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

“Just got called a slag by two guys sitting outside the University of York library. A slag for books?”

— Laura Bates

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the…

— Michael Caine

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

— Karin Slaughter

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend…

— Hugo Ball

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under…

— Chelsea Cain

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

— Richard M. Daley

If you want to purchase and view a book at your local bookstore or public library, you should have the right to…

— Mark Robinson

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense…

— Scott Turow

While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the…

— Robin Sharma

“It smelled like a library – the initial whiff of something bitter, followed by the scent lingering in every book there –…

— Kimberly Krey

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them,…

— Laurel Lea

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort…

— Thighpaulsandra

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word.…

— Sue Townsend

“She did find that the books displayed prominently in every chamber had been dusted, but the spines were pristine and uncreased. They…

— Genevieve Cogman

As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are…

— Thomas S. Monson

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal…

— Brian Selznick

When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or…

— Jesse Shera

“Each page in a book will discover other pages and other books. Thus books will seep out of their bindings and weave…

— Kevin Kelly

And let's not forget that internally, we are, like all dying empires, being hollowed out from the inside in terms of infrastructure.…

— Chris Hedges

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic…

— Tana French

My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor…

— Mona Eltahawy

“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were…

— Darryl Pinckney

“Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman”

— Kyle Cassidy

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in…

— Fran Lebowitz

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Actually, judging by Pinterest alone, I’m pretty sure a lot of people would look forward to hanging out in such a beautiful…

— Jenny Han

“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine”

— Anne Rice

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

— Barack Obama

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

— Umberto Eco

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite…

— Ruskin Bond

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

— Jackson Pearce

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

— Anonymous

“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs…

— Charles Lenox Remond

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very…

— Pink

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

— Jack Kemp

“The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;”

— David Mitchell

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

— Sarah J. Maas