Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. — Rita Dove
Read books. They are good for us. — Natalie Goldberg
No libraries, no progress. — Willard Scott
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my… — Isaac Asimov
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my heart.… — Marion Dane Bauer
We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic… — Garrison Keillor
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly… — Kurt Vonnegut
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now. — Matthew Lesko
Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library. — Winston Churchill
I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate… — Willy Russell
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at… — Michael Ondaatje
In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island… — Rebecca Solnit
The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind. — Swami Vivekananda
I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives. — Ken Burns
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one… — Vannevar Bush
In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be… — Alec Soth
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes… — Anthony Hecht
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most… — Judy Blume
A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one… — Amy Neftzger
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading -… — Annabelle Selldorf
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made… — Terry Pratchett
The Library is a wilderness of books. — Henry David Thoreau

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