Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is… — Alex Haley
If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of… — Alex Haley
During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and… — Philip Emeagwali
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole… — Bruno Bettelheim
When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in… — Marijane Meaker
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced… — Don Pendleton
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space.… — Alberto Manguel
Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent. — Mu Xin
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like… — Carrie Jones
I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things… — Carmen Agra Deedy
We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion… — Julian Simon
The public library is the great equaliser. — Keith Richards
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look… — Patrick Ness
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe… — Alan Bennett
Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count… — Jay Leno
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. — Kurt Vonnegut
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those… — Andrew Carnegie
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to… — Plato
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. — Henry Rollins
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book,… — Jorge Luis Borges
Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain. — E. Jean Carroll
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. — Janis Ian
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. — Sara Sheridan
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net… — Sara Sheridan
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all. — LeVar Burton

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