Book Quote by James Rozoff

“I love libraries. I love books. There is something sacred, I think, about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom,…

— 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

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are…

— Francis Bacon

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation…

— Timothy Healy

“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Most people enter a library and don’t hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all…

— Charles Martin

“A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet…

— Scott Douglas

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where…

— Norman Cousins

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

“… no place is more filled with imagined voices than a library.”

— Wayne C. Booth

“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a…

— Martha Cooley

“With its reverent silence the Library was as close to a religious experience as anything he had ever encountered. Its domed reading room was…

— J.E Allen