Libraries Quotes

367 quotes by 289 authors

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. — Matthew Lesko
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging. — Susan Orlean
As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some… — Nat Friedman
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being. — Laurie R. King
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. — Ada Louise Huxtable
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the… — Barbara Tuchman
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco
Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones. — Donald McCaig
We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. — Hugo Ball
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. — Vartan Gregorian
Libraries are the future of reading. — Courtney Milan
Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for… — Courtney Milan
This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money?… — John Hirsch
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not… — Ben Macintyre
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it… — Terence Cooke
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for… — Mark Twain
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading… — Benjamin Haydon
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on. — Jackson Pearce
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty. — Karin Slaughter

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