Libraries Quote by Owen Gingerich

“The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult to understand…

— Charles Finch

“The library is now located and maintained at the Institute of Making which is part of University College London. You could rebuild our”

— Mark Miodownik

“It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old building shabby…

— Erin Lawless

“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these libraries were…

— Anders Rydell

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The library sucked up sound like a vacuum. All of those thousands and thousands of unread books sucking up secrets for the last hundred…

— Michael Sears

“Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.”

— Stephanie Harvey

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one…

— Henry Ward Beecher

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

— Augustine Birrell

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

— Cecil B. DeMille

“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or the universities…

— Matthew Battles