In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel 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
“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
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
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 didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive… — Andrew Carnegie 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
“The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a… — Lesley Conger Copy Share Image
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that… — Lisa Yuskavage 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
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
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
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that… — Robert Dawson Copy Share Image
...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life.… — John Fante Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means… — Lewis Henry Steiner Copy Share Image
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“he job and Career Information Services Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the Public Library Division of the American Library… — Public Library Association Copy Share Image
