“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Libraries—like train stations, crossroads, church belfries, and attics—are places where worlds leak together, where the Management, in its ineffable wisdom, tends not… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all… — Henry Selick 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
“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through… — Astra Taylor 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
“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
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,… — Charles Gates Jr 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
“the rent is a little higher here but so far I've been able to pay it and that's a miracle too like… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they’re about study and solitude, but because they’re about… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in,… — Rick Boucher Copy Share Image
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old… — John Callahan Copy Share Image
Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out… — Jennifer Lee Carrell Copy Share Image
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city," [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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