Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds. — Richard Armour
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. — Judah Halevi
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill
The public library is where place and possibility meet. — Stuart Dybek
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams
The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it… — Georges Bernanos
Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A… — Humphrey Bogart
Every death is like the burning of a library. — Alex Haley
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or… — Margaret Mead
Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they… — Unknown Author
No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card. — Joan Rivers
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to… — Barack Obama
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something… — Edith Hamilton
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts. — Julian Beever
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to… — Bob Dylan
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses… — Alexander Smith
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. — Henry Ward Beecher
The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure -- the… — Unknown Author
That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to… — Clare B. Dunkle
Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of… — Roberta Gellis
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you… — Neil Armstrong
I've got my library card and i'm checking you out! — Joe Jonas

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