Libraries Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

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

“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the…

— James Billington

“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.”

— Matt Finch

“A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values…

— Zadie Smith

“A library is such a potent symbol of a town's values: each one closed down might as well be six thousand stickers plastered over…

— caitlin moran

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”

— Gail Honeyman

“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and it is…

— Matthew Battles

“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or…

— John Cotton Dana

“The library was one of the few places approved by my mother. I must have read almost every book in that place, living a…

— Skye Warren

“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.”

— James Rozoff

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

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