The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
(pl. ) of Library
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.
What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.", American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
The library was the best place in the world.
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart of its community, providing access to information and educational opportunities, bringin...
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it Report to Greco... Kazantzakis thought of himself as a soldier reporting to his commanding officer o...
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourci...
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.
I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,Knows the high art of what and how to read.
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever wer...
Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.