I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four... — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
When the other girls had physical or practical classes like PE, drama or science, I would spend the lessons in the library,… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth… — John Alfred Langford Copy Share Image
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of… — Edward Eager Copy Share Image
You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams. — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Guards are of no use in a library. Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them. — Lois Ehlert Copy Share Image
My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge! — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
“A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
