Library Quotes · Page 26

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

— Ally Carter

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or…

— Gary D. Schmidt

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

— Alberto Manguel

“He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.”

— Victor Hugo

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

— Joan Bauer

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

— Redman

“I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work”

— Larry Brown

You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason…

— Anonymous

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own,…

— Voltaire

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I…

— Dolly Parton

I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week,…

— Kate DiCamillo

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could…

— Gennifer Flowers

“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

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this.…

— Irving Stone

Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest…

— Melvil Dewey

At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your…

— Joe Louis Walker

Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on…

— Mitali Perkins

The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the…

— Edward Gibbon

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without…

— William Hazlitt

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of…

— Stephen Fry

“Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. * * * They opened the door and stepped…

— Ray Bradbury

“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

I was a little tomboy, growing up, but we had to go to the library every weekend if we wanted some form…

— Isabela Moner

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

— LeVar Burton

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

— Elie Wiesel

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

— Edward Young

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd…

— Judy Blume

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

— Bitsie Tulloch

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

— Anonymous

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

— Anita Brookner

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching…

— Oprah Winfrey

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

— Willard Scott

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”

— Carlos María Domínguez

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

— Robert Darnton

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own…

— Swami Vivekananda

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

— Anonymous

“More than anything, memory resembles a library in alphabetical disorder, and with no collected works by anyone.”

— Joseph Brodsky

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

— Alexandra Adornetto