Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds… — Sue Townsend
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. — Zig Ziglar
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A man's library is a sort of harem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please. — Richard Baxter
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor… — Andrew Carnegie
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers… — Ann Brashares
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull… — Ray Bradbury
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries… — Sidney Poitier
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better… — Roger Zelazny
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what… — Jennifer Weiner
You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself,… — Barack Obama
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our… — Eudora Welty
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. — Emma Thompson
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. — Jimmy Buffett
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there... — Barbara Pym
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the… — Paul Auster
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. — Robert Bloch
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. — Sholem Asch
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately… — Deb Caletti
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. — Henry Ward Beecher
What in the world would we do without our libraries? — Katharine Hepburn
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. — Walter Savage Landor
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs

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