Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“in 1444, Cosimo founded Europe’s first public library, the Library of San Marco, and thus began to challenge the Church’s long monopoly… — Michael Baigent Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
“The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a… — Lesley Conger 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
I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go, Provincetown will always take you back, at whatever age and in whatever condition. Because time moves somewhat differently there,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“One of the less apparent but most profound consequences of domestic electric lighting was the encouragement of reading at home. Increased reading… — David E. Kyvig Copy Share Image
“America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“When she decided to get a job, she rejected a tempting offer from a company that had just been set up in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“But then his parents changed. A year of California had changed them. They stopped sending money. Greg was forced to go out… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]” — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
“The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed… — Rachel Cohen Copy Share Image
“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're… — Carla Hayden Copy Share Image
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances.… — David Castle Copy Share Image
“Your mother goes to the public library, which has been down on its luck for a long time, like most things around… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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