I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library. — H. Jon Benjamin Copy Share Image
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted… — joyce carol oates Copy Share Image
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“he job and Career Information Services Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the Public Library Division of the American Library… — Public Library Association Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Children built snowmen in their front lawns, played in the yard of the public library. I would miss that old library. I… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police… — Ray B. Browne Copy Share Image
“ Choosing Careers Many people with social anxiety do not have the job they would like the most because of fear. They… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“Marianne Fairfield, Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library; Barbara Fellows, Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County (Ohio); Vera A. Green, Carnegie Library… — Public Library Association Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
“Depression, we are told over and over again, is a brain disease, a chemical imbalance that can be adjusted by antidepressant medication.… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that… — Robert Dawson Copy Share Image
The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.” — Brent Crawford Copy Share Image
