Library Quotes · Page 19

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

— Katharine Hepburn

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You can't have a great university without a great library.

— Joe Paterno

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

— Harper Lee

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

A library is also a place where love begins.

— Rudolfo Anaya

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

— Barbara Tuchman

“A library: Where we can shhhh people without offense.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

— Nicolas Chamfort

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

— Andrew Lang

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken…

— Tracy Chevalier

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and…

— Stephen Fry

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

— Frank Zappa

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the…

— Tom Angleberger

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

— Robin Sharma

“Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

“They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal…

— Ariel Lawhon

I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the library. I've always been fascinated…

— Molly Harper

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,…

— Hilary Mantel

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job…

— Pete Seeger

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a…

— Neil Gaiman

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of…

— Pete Seeger

“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

Then she would be done with J. D. Jameson forever. No more having to prove herself; no more of those pesky jitters…

— Julie James

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east…

— John Updike

“I work [at a library] because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited…

— Josh Hanagarne

At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where…

— Vera Nazarian

You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I…

— Barack Obama

“When I had no books and had to learn everything I needed off by heart, and when I had to hide what…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people…

— Leo Tolstoy

The Web is cool, but the library is magic.

— Arthur Plotnik

Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.

— Fred Kaplan

My library was dukedom large enough.

— William Shakespeare

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

— John Ciardi

“The libraries have become my candy store.”

— Juliana Kimball

“Some people write letters, in the library.”

— Margaret Atwood

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

— Alan Bennett

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

— Will Durant