Archives Quote by Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

— Barbara Tuchman

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books…

— Georges Duhamel

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

— Norman Cousins

A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking…

— Francis Spufford

A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our…

— Adriana Trigiani

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of…

— Archibald MacLeish

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

— Neil Gaiman

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you…

— E. B. White

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

— Kevin Barry