It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
“Empowered and knowledgeable, wild readers know they can walk into any library or bookstore and find something to read. Our students must… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one… — John Green Copy Share Image
Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“You and I both worry about what it means to put our personal libraries onto one gadget and then what would happen… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
“If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria… — Nils Kjaer Copy Share Image
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in… — Antoine De Jussieu Copy Share Image
“To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the… — Hardeep Singh Kohli Copy Share Image
I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside,… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians… — Julian Beever Copy Share Image
Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
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