Library Quotes
1426 quotes by 940 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
— Lynda Barry
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
— Aphra Behn
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
— Saul Bellow
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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
— Tony Benn
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
— Josh Billings
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Libraries are not made, they grow.
— Augustine Birrell
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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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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
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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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
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
— Ray Bradbury
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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
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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
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
— Warren Buffett
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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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