Library Quotes

What can I say? Librarians rule.

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

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

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

Your library is your paradise.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

The public library is the great equaliser.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

A library is a growing organism.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.