“Most beautiful places where I found myself satisfied were libraries” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass. — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
“I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work” — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.” — Carlos María Domínguez Copy Share Image
Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
“Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library.” “You might be surprised.” “What do you mean?” “You know… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Trithemius' concern for conservation was rare, indeed, and is a lesson to modern library managers who discard printed volumes, believing that e-books… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a… — Mark Moran Copy Share Image
Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Suppose each of us make up a list of, say, fifty or more books that we believe should be in the library.… — Harold Sinclair Copy Share Image
“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it… — Russell Grandinetti Copy Share Image
“If I had my druthers, I would be buried in a library or inside a coffin that resembled one--that's how I feel… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries. — Arthur Ashe 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
“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.” — Garrett Leigh Copy Share Image
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume… — William Hazlitt 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
“loved thick books, dusty statues, even the musty smell in the air. Libraries were treasure troves of knowledge and imagination.” — Robert E. Keller Copy Share Image
“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.” — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” — Anne Herbert 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
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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