Library Quotes

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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for… — David McCullough
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists. — Archibald MacLeish
Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship. — Oprah Winfrey
When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to… — Oprah Winfrey
The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible… — Malcolm Forbes
My alma mater was books, a good library. — Malcolm X
What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we… — Pete Hamill
The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was… — Gloria Estefan
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a… — Ed Asner
We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full… — Kathy Bates
I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's… — Natalie Portman
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand… — James A. Michener
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current… — Arthur Ashe
Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff… — George W. Bush
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be… — Laura Bush
Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. — Tove Ditlevsen
At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or… — Unknown Author
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down. — Mark Plotkin

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