Libraries Quotes

367 quotes by 289 authors

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people. — Diane Ackerman
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling… — William James
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it… — Ray Bradbury
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them… — Ayn Rand
Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on… — Michael Jackson
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. — Jim Butcher
We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire — Seth Grahame-Smith
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark....… — Andrew Carnegie
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works… — Washington Irving
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I… — Helene Hanff
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes… — Alberto Manguel
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax. — Diana Wynne Jones
Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs — Jim Rohn
... bums on the outside, libraries inside. — Ray Bradbury
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Yes, yes, I see it all! â€” an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and… — Miguel de Unamuno
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library… — Italo Calvino
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he… — Stacy Schiff

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