Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of… — Julie Andrews
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy. — Barack Obama
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. — Barack Obama
At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities… — Barack Obama
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come… — Barack Obama
...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them,… — Barack Obama
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my… — Ed Bradley
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.… — Maurice Sendak
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps… — Nils Kjaer
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner. — Nicolas Chamfort
We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library. — Robin Sharma
It reminds me of like this pathetic friend that everybody had when they were a little kid who would let you borrow any of his… — Jerry Seinfeld
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human… — Libba Bray
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. — Laura Bush
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. — John le Carre
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids. — Cornelia Funke
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. — Willard Scott
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. — Spider Robinson
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers? — Henry David Thoreau
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a… — Herbert Croly

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