Library Quotes

The library was the best place in the world.

In the Library you took your good times where you could find them.

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

A man's library opens up his character to the world.

The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.

He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.

An old librarian once said to me, " whatever we deal with, coming here is always a visual reward.

Once upon a time in a basement library nook, I stumbled upon my first favorite book.Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled, I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.

Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

I refuse to use the computers if Google is on them.'Librarian: 'Okay.''--'Librarian: '--''--'Librarian: 'Enjoy your day!

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

On less lucid evenings, every library is a haunted cemetery.

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.

Let's go downtown, " Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library.

I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining, ’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

The library is a symbol of freedom.

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

Anyone who thinks this world is without magic, hasn't been to a library.

... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.

Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room.

Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth.

Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.

It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here, " as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

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

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

Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

The library in 2020 will be ruled by geeks. In my happy vision for the future, libraries are ruled by benign geek librarian overlords and the world is full of awesome.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.