Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy… — Thomas S. Monson
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. — Huston Smith
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way… — Maya Angelou
A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window. — Stewart Brand
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to… — Lawrence Lessig
The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by… — Gretel Ehrlich
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action… — Ludwig von Mises
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are… — Washington Irving
In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. — Alexander Smith
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the… — Alexander Smith
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature. — Unknown Author
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. — Alan Moore
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly
I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a… — Charles Spurgeon
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with… — Harper Lee
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after… — Sergey Brin
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then… — William O. Douglas
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to… — Rita Dove
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is… — Rita Dove
I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you… — Robin Hobb
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing… — J. C. R. Licklider
However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home… — Richard Ernst
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the… — Linus Pauling

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