Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. — Audrey Niffenegger
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once… — Grace Paley
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is… — Italo Calvino
Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness,… — Laura Whitcomb
A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID. — Stephen King
The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the… — Dorothy Allison
Dad told Uncle Seth not to screw things up,” she informed me as we washed our hands. “He said even if Uncle Seth is famous,… — Richelle Mead
It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like… — Neil Gaiman
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. — Jim Butcher
What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim… — Laurie Halse Anderson
We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire — Seth Grahame-Smith
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark....… — Andrew Carnegie
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works… — Washington Irving
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library,… — Keith Richards
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm… — Bill Watterson
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I… — Helene Hanff
She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after… — Betty Smith
Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead… — Edward Eager
Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?'… — Jasper Fforde
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library. — Charles Bukowski
On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged… — Craig Thompson
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes… — Alberto Manguel
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax. — Diana Wynne Jones
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. — Albert Einstein

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