Libraries Quotes

No libraries, no progress.

— Willard Scott

Libraries...house our dreams.

— Nikki Giovanni

“The bookworm of great libraries.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Libraries are not made, they grow.

— Augustine Birrell

“Libraries are forever.”

— Elaine Svenonius

I've got libraries in my blood.

— Charlaine Harris

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Libraries can take the place of God.

— Umberto Eco

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

— David McCullough

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

— George Bancroft

“I was pretty sure I'd just had a nerdgasm.”

— Nicole Peeler

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

— Umberto Eco

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

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

— Alberto Manguel

“Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.”

— Paul Acampora

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?”

— Sara Sheridan

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

— Jill Abramson

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

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

— Barack Obama

“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“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

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury.”

— Kami Garcia

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

— Vartan Gregorian

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in…

— Zadie Smith

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only…

— Nicholas Meyer

Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good…

— Og Mandino

“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery…

— Jeanette Winterson

“...it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique…

— Owen Gingerich

“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They…

— Alan Bennett

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a…

— Neil Gaiman

“The library in 2020 will be ruled by geeks. In my happy vision for the future, libraries are ruled by benign geek…

— Sarah Houghton

When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to…

— Arthur Curley

“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

“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

“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed…

— Simon R. Green

“I don’t think that the definition of library has changed. Libraries have never been repositories solely of books. In Alexandria for instance,…

— Alberto Manguel

“One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds…

— Richard F. Thomas

All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they…

— Brock Adams

“ Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai,…

— Edmondo De Amicis