“Libraries and Prison are playing same role but both places give you some lesson in your life.” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical… — R. David Lankes Copy Share Image
“The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a… — James Wood Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture… — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
“Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.” — Linton Weeks Copy Share Image
“Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and… — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully… — James Billington Copy Share Image
“All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.” — Natalie S. Bober Copy Share Image
