Library Quote by Augustine Birrell Download Open image “Libraries are not made, they grow.” — Augustine Birrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Library Made
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the… — Barbara Fister Copy Share Image
Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
“A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.” — John Hill Burton Copy Share Image
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is possible to… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“She might ban me from the library." "The marvelous thing about libraries is that their contents can be easily moved.” — Alissa Johnson Copy Share Image
The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated. — Katharine Sharp Copy Share Image
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
