Libraries Quotes

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library reso...

my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries...

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

...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now ...

The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled, and intensely disagr...

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

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lendin...

My mother explained the magic with this washing machine the very, very first day. She said, 'Now Han...

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of l...

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will ta...

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire kn...

Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him...

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told E...

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might b...

The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that ex...

The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monaster...

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give ...

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit ...

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

That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the wor...

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

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them...

Within a year or two, however, a couple of the first things I wrote – ‘Anarchy In The UK’ and ‘God S...

Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. ...

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...

The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...

Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’...

[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a bett...

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

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

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

The door of Reverend Verringer’s impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a ...

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in al...

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of a...

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united...

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest th...

...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out ...

Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe...

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-ca...

Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.“And information was hard to find. And i...

Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And e...

It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. S...

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, ...

Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.

Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night.

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in t...

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are librar...

Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are a...

I should mention here that librarians tell me never to tell this story, and especially never to pain...

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

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction sec...

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must...

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unles...

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other ...

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very...

Without the library, you have no civilization.

I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was i...

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in...

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised a...

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than ...

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...

Libraries raised me.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your d...

some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Ce...

I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelv...

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise...

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing t...

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considere...

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle r...

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books....

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in co...

THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great libra...

I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally tak...

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...

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

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

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The trage...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery ...

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very e...

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we wer...

When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops int...

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never faili...

You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.