Attention Quote by Carrie Jones

There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

— Cecil B. DeMille

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and…

— Anonymous

“The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the…

— Anonymous

“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung…

— Rebecca Solnit

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

— Gunter Grass

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

— Sara Sheridan

“Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use…

— Edith Wharton

“...any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that, for conventional…

— Alberto Manguel

“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that…

— Susan Orlean