Age Quote by Hugo Ball

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are…

— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

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

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

— Amadou Hampate Ba

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

— Umberto Eco

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

— Katharine Hepburn

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure,…

— Nancy Thayer

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

— Linda Sue Park

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

— Anonymous

library is a beautiful old thing

— Elizabeth Gilbert

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy,…

— Caroline Kennedy

There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's…

— Carrie Jones

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in…

— Aaron Swartz