Library Quotes
Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...
Show More
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the do...
Show MoreWhen I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that Americ...
Show MoreI received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, t...
Show More
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...
Show More
I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and...
Show More
How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues? Take him to a library." - Albus Severus Po...
Show MoreHarry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away...
Show More
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...
Show More
Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and...
Show More
the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot...
Show MoreHe saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was ...
Show More_00.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
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 ...
Show More
Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be av...
Show More
They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...
Show More
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a tem...
Show More
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they could...
Show More
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonde...
Show More
If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the c...
Show More
If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the c...
Show More
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...
Show More_00.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
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...
Show MoreI 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...
Show More
I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in on...
Show More
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number o...
Show More
Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an a...
Show MoreIn 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...
Show MoreWhat 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...
Show MoreWhen you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...
Show MoreWhen you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...
Show MoreI grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...
Show More
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another ...
Show More
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...
Show MoreYes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll...
Show MoreThose who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta...
Show More
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...
Show MoreI became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of ...
Show MoreSome 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...
Show MoreI 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...
Show MoreAny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
Show MoreWe were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united...
Show More
For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from ...
Show MoreI like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-...
Show MoreRead books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do...
Show More
The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understandin...
Show More
every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infi...
Show More
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis...
Show MoreThere was a grumpy librarian in the library. I could tell that he was the librarian because he seeme...
Show More
The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in t...
Show More
The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in...
Show MoreA library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, ...
Show MoreIn the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning...
Show MoreI’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was i...
Show MoreI am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in...
Show MoreYou can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always t...
Show MoreINTERVIEWERYou’re self-educated, aren’t you?BRADBURYYes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve...
Show MoreLibraries raised me.
His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did....
Show More
Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. * * * They opened the do...
Show More
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms,...
Show More
It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master...
Show MoreI'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd l...
Show MoreIt was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk whe...
Show More
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and...
Show MoreThe secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge ...
Show More
Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful...
Show More
Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room'...
Show MoreThe greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over hal...
Show MoreAnd if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a ...
Show MoreA university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a ...
Show More
Bookshelves stood against the four walls. They were shapely and well made, but were all second-hand;...
Show MoreHe sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winte...
Show MoreA library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

My library is an archive of longings.

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a sour...
Show MoreThe very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future o...
Show MoreEven the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth,Sits with the genius of the Ear...
Show More
Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts t...
Show More
Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited p...
Show More
He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the pea...
Show More
As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...
Show More
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishme...
Show More