Public library Quotes · Page 2

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

— Stuart Dybek

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best place to find things: the public library.

— Edward Bernays

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

— Stephen D. Krashen

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

— Virginia Woolf

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

— Anonymous

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

— H. Jon Benjamin

Don't forget to support your public library.

— Bob Dylan

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have…

— Jesse Ventura

“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.”

— Jules Verne

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

— Barbara Kingsolver

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

— Samuel Johnson

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than…

— David McCullough

“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”

— Neil Armstrong

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

— Studs Terkel

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

“the expansion of the public library movement in the United States, one of the chief goals behind Andrew Carnegie's widespread philanthropy was…

— Public Library Association

“Books were my hobby, even as a child,' he told me. 'I read about every book in Milkwaukee Public Library before I…

— Ruth Brandon

From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I…

— Julia Glass

Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public…

— Maxine Cheshire

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

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the…

— Isaac Asimov

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

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and…

— Keith Richards

Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others…

— Anonymous

“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

“A THOUSAND WORDS My stepfather Ralph Newman was a merry and remarkable man, a former minor league second baseman who broke his…

— Scott Simon

There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to…

— Jeffrey Tambor

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

“The room was a library. Not a public library, but a private library; that is, a collection of books belonging to Justice…

— Lemony Snicket

All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find…

— Cal Thomas

At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach…

— Kevin Mattson

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

— Robin Sloan

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

— Henry Rollins

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

— Judy Blume

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

— Bill Russell

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

— Carl Sagan

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Henry Rollins

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under…

— David Mamet