“We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.” — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
His mind was a library and I wanted to read all its books until I realized they were all about her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books… America's greatness is not only recorded in… — Terence Cooke Copy Share Image
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that… — Robert Dawson Copy Share Image
...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books… — Dominique Venner Copy Share Image
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“The library knows that it is a temporary fix. We have a stamp for the inside front cover: BROKEN SPINE NOTED. It… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening,” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image