Library Quotes

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!"

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."

Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

A library is a room where the murders take place.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

Access to a school library results in more reading.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

A library is also a place where love begins.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

Every library is an arsenal.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.