Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our… — Lupe Fiasco
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert
I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders. — Mark Foley
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. — Heinrich Heine
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a… — Marilu Henner
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A library implies an act of faith. — Victor Hugo
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. — Thomas Jefferson
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption… — Thomas Jefferson
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make… — Samuel Johnson
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. — Lady Bird Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. — Samuel Johnson
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. — Samuel Johnson
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. — Franz Kafka
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries… — Caroline Kennedy
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew… — Barbara Kingsolver
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. — Barbara Kingsolver
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There… — Charles Kuralt
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I… — Emeril Lagasse
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. — Hedy Lamarr
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and… — Anne Lamott
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. — Harper Lee
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no… — Doris Lessing

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