“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.” — Robert Arger Copy Share Image
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
“The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a… — James Wood Copy Share Image
There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle… — Andrew Nikiforuk Copy Share Image
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone -… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Wherever she spoke, Laura never failed to thank the military for their patriotism and their courage and to express sympathy for those… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change into a serpent in his… — Nicholas A. Basbanes Copy Share Image
“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows,… — Bich Minh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“Here was the same murmuring quiet, broken only by an occasional whisper, the faint thud of a librarian stamping books or overdue… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for… — William Dyer Copy Share Image
“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.” — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.” — Toby Forward Copy Share Image
Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and… — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us. — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.” — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
“I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“Libraries are congenial places but unfortunately none of us like these places because we hates books and books are leading us to… — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
“The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there. — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
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