Library Quotes

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

Chance wanting to defend her grandfather, but not about to leave the library, dustysafe sanctuary of...

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored ...

Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I w...

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the...

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in...

This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. ...

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Librar...

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some boo...

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He think...

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotte...

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is...

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, ...

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

Now take my hand and hold it tight.I will not fail you here tonight,For failing you, I fail myselfAn...

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a ...

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soun...

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be help...

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dicta...

Lord Peter's library was one of the most delightful bachelor rooms in London. Its scheme was black a...

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

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a l...

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twen...

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycl...

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was r...

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachu...

A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all tak...

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library ...

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat ...

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

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

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings...

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ...

Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere...

The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in h...

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's...

It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entran...

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the do...

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that Americ...

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, t...

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...

I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and...

How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues? Take him to a library." - Albus Severus Po...

Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away...

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away...

Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and...

the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot...

He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was ...

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...

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

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a tem...

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they could...

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

If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the c...

If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the c...

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a th...

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a fl...

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

Paradise will be a kind of library

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitat...

I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in on...

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number o...

Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an a...

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes...

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one aft...

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

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...

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another ...

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume the...

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

Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta...

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go b...

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of ...

Some people write letters, in the library.

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a librar...

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

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

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

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebod...

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...

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

For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from ...

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-...

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do...

The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understandin...

every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infi...