Top Library Quotes

For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from environments where people don't read, the loss of a library is a tragedy hat might keep them from ev...

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world...

Library Definition

(n.) A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

(n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.

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.

The library is a symbol of freedom.

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

You can only learn to read by reading.

A library is more precious than a bank.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

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.

A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.

The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She lik...

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book -- it opens tentatively -- and the patron bends the open book backward until there is a satisfying crack and the book is a little more supple,...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a grea...

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