Library Quotes · Page 30

“Walter Cronkite “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

— Walter Cronkite

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

— Ronald Reagan

“a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.”

— Donna Tartt

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

— Mary Landrieu

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

— William Godwin

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in…

— Fran Lebowitz

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town.…

— Anita Shreve

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm…

— Virginia Woolf

Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at…

— Jules Verne

The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him…

— Chris Lynch

“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am…

— Harold Laski

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other…

— Graham Nelson

“Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second. He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat." I said, "You…

— Vicki Myron

“Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that…

— Mary Virginia Provines

At one point, I got to work as an assistant for Martin Scorsese: He wanted to know about all the films coming…

— Michael Imperioli

Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library…

— Victor Koo

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions…

— Michio Kaku

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in…

— Rod Lurie

Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone…

— Laura Bush

Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…

— Alberto Manguel

“Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman”

— Kyle Cassidy

If you want to purchase and view a book at your local bookstore or public library, you should have the right to…

— Mark Robinson

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

— Richard M. Daley

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under…

— Chelsea Cain

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend…

— Hugo Ball

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

— Karin Slaughter

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the…

— Michael Caine

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

— Janis Ian

Our libraries are pillars in the neighborhood - providing vital services, safe spaces to gather, and connections to essential resources.

— Cori Bush

“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.”

— Eleanor Brown

“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.”

— Kevin Kelly

“I refuse to use the computers if Google is on them.' Librarian: 'Okay.' '--' Librarian: '--' '--' Librarian: 'Enjoy your day!”

— Gina Sheridan

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

— Siva Vaidhyanathan

“We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.”

— Scott Douglas

I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.

— Frank Dukes

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

— Tony Benn