Library Quotes

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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one… — Isaac Asimov
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. — David Attenborough
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack… — Margaret Atwood
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who… — James A. Baldwin
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. — Aphra Behn
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
Libraries are not made, they grow. — Augustine Birrell
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. — Jorge Luis Borges
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -… — Ray Bradbury
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. — Ray Bradbury
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it… — Rupert Brooke
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a… — Geraldine Brooks
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. — Warren Buffett
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000.… — Anthony Burgess

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