Public Library Quotes
98 Public Library quotes by 83 unique authors
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What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
— Matthew Lesko
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of…
— Tom Peters
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The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it…
— Terence Cooke
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for…
— Mark Twain
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The best place to find things: the public library.
— Edward Bernays
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The public library is the great equaliser.
— Keith Richards
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look…
— Patrick Ness
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The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
— Henry Rollins
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Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of…
— P. M. Forni
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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be…
— Herman Wouk
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With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
— Bill Gates
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There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by…
— Martin Lewis Perl
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
— Mark Ruffalo
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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
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Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my…
— Woody Allen
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For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
— Pete Hamill
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I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my…
— Isaac Asimov
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We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic…
— Garrison Keillor
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While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have…
— John Thomas Sladek
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The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able…
— Joseph Lancaster
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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
— Andrew Wiles
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In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming…
— George Weah
Who Wrote These Public Library Quotes
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