“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
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
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
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“in 1444, Cosimo founded Europe’s first public library, the Library of San Marco, and thus began to challenge the Church’s long monopoly… — Michael Baigent Copy Share Image
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're… — Carla Hayden Copy Share Image
“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is… — Clay Shirky 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
“Nixon was finding enemies everywhere: among liberals, the bureaucracy, on Capitol Hill, and in the press. “We can have peace. We can… — John A. Farrell 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
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spent three years researching American Rose, research that included connecting with Gypsy's sister, the late actress June Havoc (I was the… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function,… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
“Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public library and see computers where books used to… — Larry McMurtry 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
“For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]” — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
“The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed… — Rachel Cohen Copy Share Image
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,… — Amy Bloom 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
We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances.… — David Castle Copy Share Image
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
“A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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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
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
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
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