Libraries Quotes

367 quotes by 289 authors

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers. — Moshe Safdie
Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books. — Kevin Barry
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who… — Terry Pratchett
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved… — Robert Darnton
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. — Robert Darnton
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums,… — Sara Sheridan
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch… — Henry Rollins
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives,… — Hannah Kent
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian. — Simon Van Booy
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze… — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that… — Jami Attenberg
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts. — Robert Dallek
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain
I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but… — Ken Goldberg
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public… — Robert Reich
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a… — Scott Turow
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. — Richard K. Morgan
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. — Karin Slaughter
As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street… — Karin Slaughter
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes… — Norman Cousins

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