Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“People loves Ideas I love books because Ideas can be found in books” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
“I like libraries. It’s a comfort that knowledge can be saved for so long.” — Scarlet Jackson Pearce 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
“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
“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
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
“I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart… — Josie Brown Copy Share Image
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world… — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Copy Share Image
As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If schools don't make books important then children who come from homes with no books, and who don't visit libraries, will never… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.” — Larry Stone Copy Share Image
“I like libraries, if for no other reason than they give homeless people a place to hang out. There's something nice about… — Julia Walton Copy Share Image
“Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’t send them a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the… — Hardeep Singh Kohli Copy Share Image
“We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I thought I appreciated books, but this was an alter to the book gods. It was hard not to be impressed. I… — Victoria Abbott Copy Share Image
“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like… — Cath Staincliffe Copy Share Image
“This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books. — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image