I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library:… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
NC LIVE has the potential to give citizens across North Carolina immediate access to the rich array of information resources housed by… — Molly Corbett Broad Copy Share Image
Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
“Get that Property Of Whitford Public Library stamp and stamp it right on his forehead. Then cross out the library's name and… — Shannon Stacey Copy Share Image
“Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!” — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
“As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted… — joyce carol oates Copy Share Image
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. — Alan Bennett 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
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“But then his parents changed. A year of California had changed them. They stopped sending money. Greg was forced to go out… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
