Library Quotes · Page 8

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

— Mark Skousen

“the main Erudite building would be a library.”

— Veronica Roth

“For anyone with a library in their head and love in their heart,”

— Kevin Ansbro

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

— Tracy Chapman

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

— Cornelia Funke

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

— Alberto Manguel

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

— Terry Pratchett

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

— Anonymous

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

— Ken Jennings

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

— Holless Wilbur Allen

“What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.”

— Michael Gorman

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we…

— Steve Jobs

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

— Beverly Cleary

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

— John F. Kennedy

If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in…

— Ben Schott

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But…

— Carolyn Wells

the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at…

— Mary Kingsley

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a…

— Marcel Duchamp

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal…

— Russell T Davies

“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the…

— Alan Bennett

There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers,…

— Wendell Berry

“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves…

— Judy Blume

“Now take my hand and hold it tight. I will not fail you here tonight, For failing you, I fail myself And…

— Dean Koontz

“Every advance in information technology involves choosing what you want to preserve and what you want to ditch. Scanning rare books on…

— Robert Twigger

“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read…

— Michael Gira

The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So…

— Arthur Plotnik

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life…

— Karin Slaughter

We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in…

— Alberto Manguel

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a…

— Groucho Marx

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which…

— Alice Hoffman

“And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say.…

— Walter Benjamin

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

— Terry Tempest Williams

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

— Ray Bradbury

Without the library, I would have been lost.

— Jesmyn Ward

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

— Anne Waldman

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

— Walt Whitman

“I always come here when I can't sleep [. . .] every night.”

— Faith Erin Hicks

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

— Vartan Gregorian

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

— John Kenneth Galbraith