Library Quotes

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We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library. — Robin Sharma
It reminds me of like this pathetic friend that everybody had when they were a little kid who would let you borrow any of his… — Jerry Seinfeld
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human… — Libba Bray
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. — Laura Bush
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. — John le Carre
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids. — Cornelia Funke
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. — Willard Scott
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. — Spider Robinson
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers? — Henry David Thoreau
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a… — Herbert Croly
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's… — Norman Cousins
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. — Desiderius Erasmus
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums… — Nicholas D. Kristof
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the… — John Bagot Glubb

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