Public library Quotes

“What's a public library? - Max”

— Emma Pass

Freedom is a public library.

— Paula Fox

I am a public library

— Tony Benn

The library is the temple of learning.

— Carl T. Rowan

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

— Robin Sloan

Don't forget to support your public library.

— Bob Dylan

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

— H. Jon Benjamin

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

— Anonymous

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

The best place to find things: the public library.

— Edward Bernays

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

— Stephen D. Krashen

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.”

— Brent Crawford

You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling?…

— Bernie Sanders

“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

— Matt Damon

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close…

— Peter Singer

If you want to purchase and view a book at your local bookstore or public library, you should have the right to…

— Mark Robinson

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

— Elizabeth Taylor

“In New York City real estate parlors took your money and lied to you, drug addicts relieved themselves in plain sight, and…

— Tom Hanks

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

— Cecil B. DeMille

“Your mother goes to the public library, which has been down on its luck for a long time, like most things around…

— Marilynne Robinson

We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances.…

— David Castle

One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open,…

— Vartan Gregorian

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the…

— Samuel Johnson

“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

I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,…

— Amy Bloom

The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books… America's greatness is not only recorded in…

— Terence Cooke

For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in…

— Avi

“One of the less apparent but most profound consequences of domestic electric lighting was the encouragement of reading at home. Increased reading…

— David E. Kyvig

“Wherever you go, Provincetown will always take you back, at whatever age and in whatever condition. Because time moves somewhat differently there,…

— Michael Cunningham

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things,…

— Georges Bernanos

When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of…

— Wes Anderson

I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the…

— John Darnielle

“America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Depression, we are told over and over again, is a brain disease, a chemical imbalance that can be adjusted by antidepressant medication.…

— Irving Kirsch

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8…

— Bette Midler

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

— Henry Rollins

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

— Carl Sagan

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

— Bill Russell

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four...

— Judy Blume