Libraries Quote by Toby Forward Download Open image ““Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.”” — Toby Forward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Libraries
“Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’t send them a card on… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“For a child a library needs to be round the corner. And if we lose local libraries it is children who will suffer.” — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as fragile as… — Stephen Abrams Copy Share Image
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.” — Stephanie Harvey Copy Share Image
“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a peaceful environment better than libraries” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
“Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite.” — Toby Forward Copy Share Image
“Look at the stars,” said Tim. “Don’t you ever wonder what they’re for?” The Night was an open book of constellations. “They’re for the… — Toby Forward Copy Share Image
“[Flaxfield] was gentle. He was fair. He was honest. That's better than kind.” — Toby Forward Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books. — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its essence, but that it was there .” — David Drake Copy Share Image
“This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
