Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to… — Jim Rohn
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. — William Penn
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization… — Lawrence Clark Powell
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. — Arthur Baer
One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends. — Blake Mycoskie
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone… — Nicholas Meyer
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. — Simeon Strunsky
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the… — John Haynes Holmes
You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before… — Jim Trelease
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty… — Stefan Petrucha
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. — John Allen Paulos
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library… — Nigel Dennis
The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame. — Matthew Lesko
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. — Matthew Lesko
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life… — Lewis Hyde
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
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. — Carolyn Wells
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging. — Susan Orlean
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer… — John Redwood
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
She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. — Thomas Pynchon
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and… — Taylor Kinney
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

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