Library Quote by Zadie Smith

“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

“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public…

— Keith Richards

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as…

— Alberto Manguel

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly…

— Daniel Handler

“A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

— James Joyce

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their…

— Andrew Nikiforuk

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

— Ray Bradbury

Don't forget to support your public library.

— Bob Dylan

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she…

— Sarah Beth Durst