Library Quotes · Page 42

“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] ”

— John F. Kennedy

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They…

— David Baldacci

“It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble…

— Charlotte M. Vaile

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for…

— Anonymous

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

— Anonymous

With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.

— Victor Koo

“If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.”

— Plato

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,…

— Germaine Greer

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom…

— Joseph Lancaster

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need…

— Harry Golden

“Mom always says you can solve most problems at the library, and there's a lady there who's my friend. We could ask…

— Laurel Snyder

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this…

— Louis Kahn

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever…

— Anthony Doerr

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world…

— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“But then his parents changed. A year of California had changed them. They stopped sending money. Greg was forced to go out…

— Tao Lin

We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying…

— Lawrence Lessig

“The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book -- it opens tentatively -- and the patron bends the open…

— Don Borchert

And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her…

— Cassandra Clare

“But I loved the library simply because it was a library. I love libraries. I like reading, but I love libraries. Being…

— Emily Wing Smith

I think it’s really important, and it’s a lesson I didn’t learn until my late teens: Whatever bands that you love, go…

— Brad Wilk

Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting…

— Swami Vivekananda

Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information…

— Maya Angelou

“What’s the fastest route to the library in Peachtree City? (Carlos) What? You’ve got an overdue book? (Gabrielle)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

— Roger Rosenblatt

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was…

— Naomi Alderman

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.

— Adam F. Goldberg

I'm scared to go to library. I'm scared John Wick will show up and break my leg again.

— Boban Marjanovic

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st…

— Tess Gerritsen

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

— Quentin Blake

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in…

— Brian Posehn

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

— Susan Orlean

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

— Laura Bush

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

— Joanne Harris

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

— Kate Mosse

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”

— Aphra Behn

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

— John Goodman