“Libraries were havens for everyone, he might've told her, not just the clean and productive.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” — Harold Howe Copy Share Image
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge! — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To love books mean to love Libraries, to love libraries mean to love knowledge and to love knowledge mean to love creator.” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
“Guards are of no use in a library. Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Why are none of your folk here?” “Guards are of no use in a library.” Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this.… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and… — Matt Finch Copy Share Image
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent.… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In… — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“In the library I search for a good book. We have many books, says Mrs. Rose, the librarian, and ALL of them… — Sally Murphy Copy Share Image
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I have rooted myself into this quiet place where I don’t need much to get by. I need my visions. I need… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough” — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
“I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone 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
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
“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
“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 got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section. — Anonymous 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
“Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.” — Stephanie Harvey Copy Share Image
