Library Quotes

Library Quote of the day

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

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

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

Don't join the book burners!

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

A library is infinity under a roof.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.