Exalted Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because…

— André Brink

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

— James Joyce

“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life…

— Anne Lamott

“A good library’s existence is a potential step forward for a community. If hate and fear have ignorance at their core, maybe the library…

— Josh Hanagarne

“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings…

— Howard Norman

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

— Anne Perry

There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near…

— Siri Hustvedt

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

— Robertson Davies

“The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they’re about study and solitude, but because they’re about connection. Connection…

— Bella Bathurst

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

— Nikky Finney