Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. — Herbert Hoover
Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and… — Ray Bradbury
For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. — Christopher Smart
I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. — Henry David Thoreau
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I… — Joan Rivers
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They… — Mark Twain
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of… — Isaac Asimov
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. — Art Modell
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. — Ray Bradbury
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Unknown Author
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and… — Unknown Author
The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the]… — Billy Graham
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich… — Unknown Author
At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries… — Kevin Mattson
Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we… — Arthur Curley
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to… — Arthur Curley
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford
One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic… — Vartan Gregorian
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. — David McCullough
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks… — P.J. O'Rourke
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library… — Elwyn Brooks White
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer. — Bill Gates
If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities. — Richard M Daley
In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living… — Bill Harley
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like… — James H. Billington

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