Libraries Quotes

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing

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 in your library and read every book...

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.

Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself

the rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

Libraries raised me.

If your library is not "unsafe, " it probably isn't doing its job.

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex

I always say, 'Books beat boredom, ' said Amanda wisely.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens, UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

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

Trithemius' concern for conservation was rare, indeed, and is a lesson to modern library managers who discard printed volumes, believing that e-books are the only way of the future.

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world.

Love : so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the real feeling of it!

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid

There's this magical place, ' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...