Evergreens Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A library is a growing organism.

— S. R. Ranganathan

All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more…

— Brock Adams

“A library is treasure chamber of knowledge.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A well-stocked, well-staffed library is like a gardener who plants books, knowledge, and dreams and grows readers, learners, and do-ers.”

— Laura Purdie Salas

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

— Tamora Pierce

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

— Kevin Barry

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Library is a wilderness of books.

— Henry David Thoreau

“A library is more than a brick and mortar building filled with delicious books. It is also a community of people who live to…

— ALA

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our…

— Adriana Trigiani