Library Quotes · Page 39

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Jules Verne

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

— Zig Ziglar

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

— Roger Ebert

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my…

— Lord Byron

“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.”

— Terry Pratchett

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

— Virginia Hamilton

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of…

— David Nicholls

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this…

— Louis Kahn

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever…

— Anthony Doerr

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

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

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the…

— Martin Lewis Perl

“Many of my friends think I read books all day and alphabetize the shelves. Well, sometimes I do alphabetize shelves. But more…

— Jack Canfield Carrie O'Maley

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily…

— David McCullough

Talk about the sickest dunk, we had one guy throw it off the library which was about 60-feet away, back onto the…

— Darryl Dawkins

“They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again.…

— Betty Smith

All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they…

— Brock Adams

“Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Lord Peter's library was one of the most delightful bachelor rooms in London. Its scheme was black and primrose; its walls were…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget…

— Tom Peters

I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed…

— John Kennedy Toole

We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to…

— Dick Durbin

I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.

— Claire Foy

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at…

— Ray Bradbury

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

— James Joyce

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

— Philip Roth

“All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean…

— Larry Brown

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

— Deb Caletti

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

— Alan Garner

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

— Matthew Lesko

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

— Nicholson Baker

“exceptions are one of the most common sources of surprise and frustration with third-party libraries.”

— Anonymous

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

— Terry Pratchett

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ben Affleck

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

— Ray Bradbury

“but a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.”

— Elizabeth McCracken

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

— Milan Kundera