Library Quotes · Page 25

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

— Wendell H. Ford

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell…

— George R. R. Martin

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

— Stephen Fry

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”

— Anne Herbert

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All…

— Esme Raji Codell

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

— Art Modell

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

— Jim Rohn

“When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools…

— Scott Douglas

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what…

— Michael Dirda

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or…

— Francis Bacon

I love to read, but I didn't know how I could keep up with my eyes, ... But I remembered that the…

— Dorothy Bryant

“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely…

— Stephen Greenblatt

The thing with the question of oneness or non-oneness is that you can literally discuss it forever. You can go into the…

— Brad Warner

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

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's…

— Jim Elliot

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library…

— Karin Slaughter

If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the…

— Margaret Atwood

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those…

— Laurie R. King

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the…

— Isaac Asimov

If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will…

— Judy Blume

For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a…

— Francis Darwin

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and…

— Simeon Strunsky

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

I remember that children in my class would hate the English club, whereas I was always found in the library.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers…

— Kami Garcia

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping…

— Robin Sloan

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A school without a library is like a first aid box without medicines". Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka - 2017”

— Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

— J. K. Rowling

The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the…

— Gordon Korman

“Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

— Augustine Birrell

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

— Mark Foley

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

— Pete Hamill

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

— Jim C. Hines

“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say…

— Scott Douglas

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson