Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
A library is also a place where love begins. — Rudolfo Anaya
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies,… — Peter Ackroyd
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached. — Bernard Berenson
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER… — Groucho Marx
If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who… — Louis L'Amour
There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed. — Philip Roth
To use it should be as natural ... as to use the trolley when one needs transportation. — John Cotton Dana
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. — Horace Mann
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a… — Alan Bradley
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine. — Stephen King
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library… — Melvil Dewey
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes… — Helen Vendler
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you. — Elie Wiesel
Once you read, you will be free forever. — Frederick Douglass
It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A library is a feast to which we are all invited. — Katherine Paterson
A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought. — Diana Wynne Jones
Storytelling is the oldest form of education. — Terry Tempest Williams
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values. — Jim Hightower
No use going to class unless you go to the library. — Ray Bradbury

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