Library Quotes

A man's library is a sort of harem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Libraries are where it all begins.

— Rita Dove

A library is a growing organism.

— S. R. Ranganathan

E-books are impervious to analogy.

— Scott Adams

A library is infinity under a roof.

— Gail Carson Levine

A library is a palace of dreams.

— M.C. Beaton

Dear me, how I love a library.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

invaders always destroy libraries.

— Storm Jameson

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

— Andrew Wiles

“Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down.”

— Amadou Hampâté Bâ

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

— Bill Gates

“The library is a symbol of freedom.”

— Sara Sheridan

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

— Iain Banks

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

— Thomas Lovejoy

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

— Jim Rohn

I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!

— Joe Jonas

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

— Jorge Luis Borges

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in…

— Ray Bradbury

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

— Carolyn Wells

“With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.”

— Martha Cooley

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

— Nikky Finney

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

— John Cotton Dana

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing…

— Janet Fitch

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go…

— Robin Sharma

Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of…

— Georges Perec

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get…

— John Steinbeck

It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of…

— Tom Peters

“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,…

— Toni Morrison

Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not…

— Henry Miller

The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia:…

— Steven Moffat

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of…

— Carl Sagan

“So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you…

— Ray Bradbury

Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew…

— Jasper Fforde

Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled…

— Richelle Mead

I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the…

— David Small

I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the…

— Tricia Rhodes

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16…

— John Lewis

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and…

— Gene Luen Yang

When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a…

— Annie Dillard