Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries. — Walt Whitman
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. — Cornelia Funke
School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries. — Laurie Halse Anderson
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to… — Andrew Carnegie
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those… — Edward Bellamy
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. — Studs Terkel
I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have… — David Horowitz
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing… — John Cage
I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four... — Judy Blume
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed,… — Sherman Alexie
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of… — David Mamet
If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries… — Andrew Carnegie
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer. — Newell Dwight Hillis
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. — Alexander Smith
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. — Richard de Bury
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light… — Thomas Jefferson
A library is thought in cold storage. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. — Barbara Tuchman
Your library is your portrait. — Holbrook Jackson
But what can a man see of a library being one day in it? — James Boswell
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence. — Augustine Birrell
Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow. — William Shakespeare

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