Libraries Quotes

367 quotes by 289 authors

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and… — Neil Gaiman
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes… — Neil Gaiman
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them! — Marilyn Johnson
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. — David Strathairn
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles… — Marilyn Johnson
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge,… — Marilyn Johnson
Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help… — Scott Turow
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot… — Joseph Howe
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that… — Irving Stone
The richest minds need not large libraries. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries — Louis Pasteur
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who… — Louis L'Amour
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. — Horace Mann
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes… — Helen Vendler
No libraries, no progress. — Willard Scott
We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic… — Garrison Keillor
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly… — Kurt Vonnegut
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now. — Matthew Lesko
I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives. — Ken Burns

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