Public Library Quotes

98 quotes by 84 authors

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -… — Ray Bradbury
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we… — John Lewis
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I… — Isaac Asimov
When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the… — Jesse Ventura
I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read.… — Clarence Thomas
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor
We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for… — David McCullough
I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's… — Natalie Portman
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. — Ray Bradbury
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… — Lewis Henry Steiner
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
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
The public library is where place and possibility meet. — Stuart Dybek
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell
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

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