Libraries Quotes

367 quotes by 289 authors

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers? — Henry David Thoreau
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums… — Nicholas D. Kristof
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the… — John Bagot Glubb
Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library… — Laura Bush
I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read.… — Clarence Thomas
Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a… — Richard Riordan
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists. — Archibald MacLeish
What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we… — Pete Hamill
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a… — Ed Asner
We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full… — Kathy Bates
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand… — James A. Michener
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current… — Arthur Ashe
Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff… — George W. Bush
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be… — Laura Bush
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together… — J. C. R. Licklider
For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. — Christopher Smart

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