Libraries Quotes

367 quotes by 289 authors

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. — Alan Bennett
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. — Connie Willis
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to… — Sidney Sheldon
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies… — James A. Michener
America, why are your libraries full of tears? — Allen Ginsberg
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending… — Jo Walton
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched… — Laurie R. King
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries,… — Ray Bradbury
Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends — Tamora Pierce
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. — Catherynne M. Valente
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries? — William James
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them. — Patrick Ness
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out… — David Foster Wallace
It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets. — Jo Walton
Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and… — Heather Brewer
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman
She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't… — Gary Paulsen
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will… — Anne Lamott
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one… — Ravi Zacharias

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