Quotes about Library and Books

We find paradise in every library and bookshop. Votes: 2

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. Votes: 2

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. Votes: 2

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. Votes: 2

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. Votes: 2

If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books. Votes: 2

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. Votes: 2

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: 2

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: 2

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community. Votes: 2

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books. Votes: 2

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy. Votes: 2

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books. 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

Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them. Votes: 2

There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books. Votes: 2

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. Votes: 2

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. Votes: 2

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. Votes: 2

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library. Votes: 2

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library. Votes: 2

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. Votes: 1

The Library is a wilderness of books. Votes: 0

My alma mater was books, a good library. Votes: 0

I spent my life in the library reading books. Votes: 0

You can judge a man by the books in his library. Votes: 0

The function of a great library is to store obscure books. Votes: 0

People are living books. The real library of life is community. Votes: 0

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. Votes: 0

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? Votes: 0

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard. Votes: 0

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books. Votes: 0

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb! Votes: 0

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. Votes: 0

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! Votes: 0

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books. Votes: 0

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians. Votes: 0

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. Votes: 0

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. Votes: 0

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library. Votes: 0

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four... Votes: 0

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. Votes: 0

One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,is that it is full of books. Votes: 0

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. Votes: 0

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. Votes: 0

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders. Votes: 0

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books. Votes: 0

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. Votes: 0

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. Votes: 0

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. Votes: 0

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her. Votes: 0

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. Votes: 0

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. Votes: 0

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks. Votes: 0

Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers? Votes: 0

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. Votes: 0

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. Votes: 0

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. Votes: 0

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. Votes: 0

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Votes: 0

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love. Votes: 0

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them. Votes: 0

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there. Votes: 0

My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity Votes: 0

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. Votes: 0

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything. Votes: 0

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library. Votes: 0

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends. Votes: 0

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. Votes: 0

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. Votes: 0

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me Votes: 0

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them. Votes: 0

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. Votes: 0

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking. Votes: 0

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to. Votes: 0

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. Votes: 0

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. Votes: 0

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. Votes: 0

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. Votes: 0

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library. Votes: 0

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen. Votes: 0

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: 0

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. Votes: 0

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word. Votes: 0

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. Votes: 0

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves. Votes: 0

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city. Votes: 0

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library." Votes: 0

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing. Votes: 0

It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al) Votes: 0

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. Votes: 0

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. Votes: 0

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian. Votes: 0

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural. Votes: 0

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was. Votes: 0

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading. Votes: 0

Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways Votes: 0

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. Votes: 0

I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting. Votes: 0

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library. Votes: 0

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: 0

There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds! Votes: 0

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.' Votes: 0

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. Votes: 0

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour. Votes: 0

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence. Votes: 0

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. Votes: 0

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia. Votes: 0

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription. Votes: 0

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare. Votes: 0

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones. Votes: 0

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. Votes: 0

He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books". Votes: 0

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true. Votes: 0

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2) Votes: 0

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2) Votes: 0

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others. Votes: 0