Library Quotes

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When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to… — Arthur Curley
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford
One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic… — Vartan Gregorian
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. — David McCullough
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks… — P.J. O'Rourke
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library… — Elwyn Brooks White
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer. — Bill Gates
If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities. — Richard M Daley
In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living… — Bill Harley
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like… — James H. Billington
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds. — Richard Armour
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. — Judah Halevi
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill
The public library is where place and possibility meet. — Stuart Dybek
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams
The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it… — Georges Bernanos
Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A… — Humphrey Bogart
Every death is like the burning of a library. — Alex Haley

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