When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
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
“Plenty of patrons had asked me strange things, but this was the first who asked me where my car was parked. It… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. You're, say, trying to do… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“When nightfall weaves its way through the New York Public Library, it is nothing shy of magic. Long stretched of sunlight on… — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb 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
“Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“A THOUSAND WORDS My stepfather Ralph Newman was a merry and remarkable man, a former minor league second baseman who broke his… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
“When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows,… — Bich Minh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“This place might have been paradise, a treasure trove far greater than any to be found in a pirate yarn. Everywhere he… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“The room was a library. Not a public library, but a private library; that is, a collection of books belonging to Justice… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
“I think a free library is an outrageous perk. I think being able to take out 50 books at a time is… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four... — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Access to public libraries also affects how much children read. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. — Andrew Wiles 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
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The Battle Creek, Michigan, headquarters of Kellogg’s looks like a spaceship built to look like a pyramid that was then hastily converted… — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in… — Avi Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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