Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to… — Virginia Woolf
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library. — Jane Austen
Meek young men grow up in libraries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries. — Arthur Ashe
But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read. — Ray Bradbury
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill
Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us. — Virginia Hamilton
The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library… — John Grisham
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's… — Arthur Miller
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections,… — Sara Paretsky
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it,… — Mark Twain
I never went to college, so I went to the library. — Ray Bradbury
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and… — Neil Gaiman
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes… — Neil Gaiman
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered — Elwyn Brooks White
I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own. — Gregory Colbert
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them! — Marilyn Johnson
Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules,… — Chris Wooding
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle… — Matt Damon
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. — David Strathairn
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles… — Marilyn Johnson
The Web is cool, but the library is magic. — Arthur Plotnik

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