Libraries Quotes

367 quotes by 289 authors

Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I… — Joan Rivers
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. — Art Modell
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen
At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries… — Kevin Mattson
Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we… — Arthur Curley
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to… — Arthur Curley
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. — David McCullough
If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities. — Richard M. Daley
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like… — James H. Billington
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds. — Richard Armour
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it… — Georges Bernanos
Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A… — Humphrey Bogart
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or… — Margaret Mead
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something… — Edith Hamilton
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts. — Julian Beever
Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of… — Roberta Gellis
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the… — William Hurt
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can… — Carl Sagan
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks… — Nathan Fillion

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