“Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman” — Kyle Cassidy Copy Share Image
Our libraries are pillars in the neighborhood - providing vital services, safe spaces to gather, and connections to essential resources. — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
“They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain. — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on. — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Laura also tried to comfort her staff (after 9/11), but Kathi Card never saw fear in her. "Someone with a strong faith… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
Public libraries are critical learning centers for New Mexicans that bring communities together, especially in our rural regions that depend on library… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
“There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“He had spoken in a whisper and she answered in one – though perhaps not how he had expected. “Do you not… — Emily Murdoch Copy Share Image
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its… — Kim Boykin Copy Share Image
“She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“The White House is a character crucible," according to Bertram S. Brown, M.D., a psychiatrist who formerly headed the National Institute of… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that… — Robert Dawson Copy Share Image
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work… — Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford Copy Share Image
“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Late fees are the enemy of early literacy because instead of promoting responsible behavior, they suppress library visits for some of the… — Kyle Cassidy Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)” — Craig Kyle and Chris Yost Copy Share Image
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon Copy Share Image
Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.” — Eleanor Crumblehulme library assistant University of British Columbia Copy Share Image
“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance. — Francis Keppel Copy Share Image
“The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” — Harold Howe Copy Share Image
