Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. — Richard Saul Wurman
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not… — Ben Macintyre
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it… — Terence Cooke
The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further -… — Brewster Kahle
I love to read, but I didn't know how I could keep up with my eyes, ... But I remembered that the library had books… — Dorothy Bryant
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for… — Mark Twain
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. — Jorge Luis Borges
As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it. — Sam Ewing
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading… — Benjamin Haydon
Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers. — Nick Flynn
The best place to find things: the public library. — Edward Bernays
Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts… — David Quammen
I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. Â I'm watching it burn right to the ground. — Jandy Nelson
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on. — Jackson Pearce
Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection. — Michael Dirda
Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card. — Marc Brown
In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning. — Amadou Hampate Ba
Every old man that dies is a library that burns. — Amadou Hampate Ba
You can judge a man by the books in his library. — Mark Skousen
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but… — Niall Williams
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty. — Karin Slaughter
There is no problem a library card can't solve. — Eleanor Brown
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of… — Unknown Author
All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else… — Unknown Author
No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution… — Earl G. Graves, Sr.

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