A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul. — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way… — Jay Parini 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 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 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
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.” — John Hill Burton Copy Share Image
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
