Libraries Quotes

Libraries raised me.

— Ray Bradbury

Libraries are where it all begins.

— Rita Dove

“Libraries are zoos for books.”

— Craig Douglas Dworkin

Never judge a book by its spine

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Libraries are the pride of the city.

— Amy Tan

My library was dukedom large enough.

— William Shakespeare

“Life, Love, libraries, have no future”

— Nabokov Vladimir

invaders always destroy libraries.

— Storm Jameson

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

— Jim Rohn

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”

— Gail Honeyman

“When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise.”

— Miv Schaaf

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

— Jean Fritz

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

— Ray Bradbury

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

— Siri Hustvedt

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

— Diane Ackerman

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

— Karin Slaughter

“Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism." [ Libraries on the Front Lines , ALA interview 2011]”

— Neil Gaiman

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

— Germaine Greer

“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

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

— Stephen Fry

“I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.”

— Nick Hornby

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

— Madeleine Albright

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and…

— B.J. Novak

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,…

— Toni Morrison

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is…

— James H. Billington

“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them…

— Barbara Fister

“Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books…

— Harlan Coben

“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing…

— John Cotton Dana

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd…

— Richard Riordan

“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library…

— Bernard Kops

“Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search…

— Neil Armstrong

“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,…

— Alberto Manguel

“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as…

— Alberto Manguel

“The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she…

— Lucy Dillon

“Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one…

— Patrick Wilson

“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It…

— Jeanette Winterson

“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change into a serpent in his…

— Nicholas A. Basbanes