I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in…

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute…

— Sidney Sheldon

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure,…

— Nancy Thayer

“But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few…

— Simon Montefiore

“Libraries—like train stations, crossroads, church belfries, and attics—are places where worlds leak together, where the Management, in its ineffable wisdom, tends not to look…

— Daniel Polansky

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

— Alberto Manguel

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Libraries were like a second home to me, not really a shocker given my lack of much of a social life, and I’d noticed…

— H.K. Savage

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

— Joanne Harris

“But I loved the library simply because it was a library. I love libraries. I like reading, but I love libraries. Being surrounded by…

— Emily Wing Smith

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

— Jean Fritz

In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you…

— Anne Lamott

We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha. "No use," said Luwin. "I'm dying, woman." "You can't," said Rickon angrily. "No…

— Anonymous

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin',…

— Ira Gershwin

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all,…

— Dag Hammarskjold