Quotes about Libraries

Libraries can take the place of God. Votes: 4

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. Votes: 4

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian. Votes: 4

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. Votes: 4

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. Votes: 4

Libraries are our friends. Votes: 3

Libraries...house our dreams. Votes: 3

Libraries help you to dream! Votes: 3

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature. Votes: 3

Libraries are the future of reading. Votes: 3

Libraries are where it all begins. Votes: 3

Libraries are not made, they grow. Votes: 3

Libraries are the pride of the city. Votes: 3

Libraries really are the gates to the future. Votes: 3

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain. Votes: 3

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement Votes: 3

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture. Votes: 3

Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction? Votes: 3

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. Votes: 3

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. Votes: 3

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on." Votes: 3

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. Votes: 3

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends Votes: 3

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people. Votes: 3

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. Votes: 3

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom Votes: 3

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. Votes: 3

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading. Votes: 3

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. Votes: 3

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure. Votes: 3

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. Votes: 3

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them! Votes: 3

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth. Votes: 3

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored. Votes: 3

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being. Votes: 3

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all. Votes: 3

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance. Votes: 3

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds. Votes: 3

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. Votes: 3

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. Votes: 3

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] Votes: 3

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging. Votes: 3

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information. Votes: 3

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it. Votes: 3

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax. Votes: 3

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. Votes: 3

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries. Votes: 3

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge! Votes: 3

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us. Votes: 3

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. Votes: 3

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. Votes: 3

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. Votes: 3

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books. Votes: 3

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. Votes: 3

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished. Votes: 3

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Votes: 3

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. Votes: 3

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining. Votes: 3

Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it. Votes: 3

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining. Votes: 3

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed. Votes: 3

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets. Votes: 3

Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community "” not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone. Votes: 3

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life. Votes: 3

Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life. Votes: 3

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp. Votes: 3

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts. Votes: 3

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both. Votes: 3

Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures. Votes: 3

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. Votes: 3

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more. Votes: 3

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. Votes: 3

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read. Votes: 3

Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. Votes: 3

Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live. Votes: 3

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries. Votes: 3

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer Votes: 3

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated. Votes: 3

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight. Votes: 3

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans. Votes: 3

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts. Votes: 3

Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence. Votes: 3

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books. Votes: 3

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Votes: 2

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Votes: 2

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. Votes: 2

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Votes: 2

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library. Votes: 2

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science. Votes: 2

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. Votes: 2

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? Votes: 2

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. Votes: 2

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe. Votes: 2

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books. Votes: 2

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones. Votes: 2

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome. Votes: 2

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. Votes: 2

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development. Votes: 2

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. Votes: 2

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. Votes: 2

A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am passionate about the role of libraries, both in schools and in the wider community. They are unique places where children can begin their journey as readers, as well as being creative hubs. Votes: 2

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books. Votes: 2

Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something. Votes: 2

My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar. Votes: 2

No libraries, no progress. Votes: 0

invaders always destroy libraries. Votes: 0

Support your libraries... or else! Votes: 0

I've got libraries in my blood. Votes: 0

... bums on the outside, libraries inside. Votes: 0

Meek young men grow up in libraries. Votes: 0

The richest minds need not large libraries. Votes: 0

With enough libraries, all content is free. Votes: 0

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets. Votes: 0

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries. Votes: 0

America, why are your libraries full of tears? Votes: 0

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Votes: 0

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries Votes: 0

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind. Votes: 0

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries Votes: 0

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. Votes: 0

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire Votes: 0

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read. Votes: 0

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. Votes: 0

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries. Votes: 0

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs Votes: 0

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries. Votes: 0

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries. Votes: 0

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. Votes: 0

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space. Votes: 0

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. Votes: 0

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers? Votes: 0

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. Votes: 0

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life. Votes: 0

What in the world would we do without our libraries? Votes: 0

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources. Votes: 0

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church. Votes: 0

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice. Votes: 0

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day. Votes: 0

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. Votes: 0

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure. Votes: 0

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them. Votes: 0

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. Votes: 0

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries. Votes: 0

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries! Votes: 0

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. Votes: 0

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. Votes: 0

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. Votes: 0

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Votes: 0

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. Votes: 0

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries. Votes: 0

I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders. Votes: 0

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities. Votes: 0

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. Votes: 0

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. Votes: 0

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. Votes: 0

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. Votes: 0

In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries. Votes: 0

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers. Votes: 0

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. Votes: 0

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. Votes: 0

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. Votes: 0

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame. Votes: 0

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. Votes: 0

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries. Votes: 0

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. Votes: 0

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now. Votes: 0

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush. Votes: 0

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. Votes: 0

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books. Votes: 0

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain. Votes: 0

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read. Votes: 0

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries. Votes: 0

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. Votes: 0

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. Votes: 0

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty. Votes: 0

Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular. Votes: 0

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed? Votes: 0

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. Votes: 0

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached." Votes: 0

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. Votes: 0

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France. Votes: 0

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. Votes: 0

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money. Votes: 0

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Votes: 0

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. Votes: 0

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized. Votes: 0

Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts. Votes: 0

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand. Votes: 0

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. Votes: 0

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. Votes: 0

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. Votes: 0

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. Votes: 0

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. Votes: 0

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. Votes: 0

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries? Votes: 0

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Votes: 0

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets Votes: 0

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. Votes: 0

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. Votes: 0

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read. Votes: 0

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. Votes: 0

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives. Votes: 0

Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires. Votes: 0

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man Votes: 0

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. Votes: 0

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please. Votes: 0

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. Votes: 0

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. Votes: 0

Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread. Votes: 0

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars Votes: 0

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife. Votes: 0

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby. Votes: 0

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops. Votes: 0

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries. Votes: 0

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time. Votes: 0

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask. Votes: 0

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. Votes: 0

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive. Votes: 0

Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. Votes: 0

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. Votes: 0

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on. Votes: 0

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones. Votes: 0

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? Votes: 0

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down. Votes: 0

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom. Votes: 0

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer. Votes: 0

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries. Votes: 0

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) Votes: 0

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. Votes: 0

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer. Votes: 0

I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones. Votes: 0

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning. Votes: 0

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds. Votes: 0

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road. Votes: 0

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts. Votes: 0

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book. Votes: 0

Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it. Votes: 0

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. Votes: 0

I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term. Votes: 0

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. Votes: 0

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit. Votes: 0

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! Votes: 0

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Votes: 0

[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive. Votes: 0

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there. Votes: 0

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card. Votes: 0

I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves. Votes: 0

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value. Votes: 0

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope. Votes: 0

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead"¦ Votes: 0

We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege. Votes: 0

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. Votes: 0

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. Votes: 0

We now have in our hands"”really, in our libraries"”the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years. Votes: 0

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books. Votes: 0

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things. Votes: 0

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. Votes: 0

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats. Votes: 0

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries. Votes: 0

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it. Votes: 0

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained. Votes: 0

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. Votes: 0

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will. Votes: 0

He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries. Votes: 0

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. And scissors - that's beyond the pale. Votes: 0

If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers. Votes: 0

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future. Votes: 0

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries' Votes: 0

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning. Votes: 0

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all. Votes: 0

You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. Votes: 0

His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius} Votes: 0

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents. Votes: 0

What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall. Votes: 0

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. Votes: 0

I am proud to say that I am not in it for the money. If I made a million dollars, I would donate most of it to various charities and libraries. Votes: 0

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. Votes: 0

The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore. Votes: 0

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands Votes: 0

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening. Votes: 0

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth. Votes: 0

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked. Votes: 0

Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did. Votes: 0

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries. Votes: 0

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. Votes: 0

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out. Votes: 0

Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk. Votes: 0

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis. Votes: 0

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach. Votes: 0

The retreat and disappearance of glaciers"”there are only 160,000 left"”means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall. Votes: 0

A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa. Votes: 0

And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild. Votes: 0

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible. Votes: 0

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. Votes: 0

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. Votes: 0

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan. Votes: 0

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date. Votes: 0

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag. Votes: 0

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? Votes: 0

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. Votes: 0

I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared. Votes: 0

I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired. Votes: 0

Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none. Votes: 0