Libraries Quotes

367 quotes by 289 authors

They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked… — Chrystos
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries. — Walt Whitman
School libraries are the foundations of our culture â€“ not luxuries. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those… — Edward Bellamy
I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have… — David Horowitz
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus
If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries… — Andrew Carnegie
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
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer. — Newell Dwight Hillis
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light… — Thomas Jefferson
A library is thought in cold storage. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
Your library is your portrait. — Holbrook Jackson
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. — Sarah J. Maas
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind… — Adam Weishaupt
There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the… — Wendell Berry
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. — David Baldacci
Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the… — Assata Shakur
Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger… — Russell Banks

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