Library Quotes

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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use… — Laura Bush
Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library. — Laura Bush
The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality… — Alexis Carrel
Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. — Nick Cave
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I… — Sandra Cisneros
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. — Tom Clancy
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for… — Maya Angelou
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries… — Maya Angelou
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with its… — Max Delbruck
It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the… — Tommy Cooper
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface… — Agnes de Mille
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. — Henri Frederic Amiel
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we… — John Lewis
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I… — Isaac Asimov
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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