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. — Lady Bird Johnson
Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism. — S. R. Ranganathan
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. — Virginia Woolf
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. — Sarah J. Maas
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa
The public library is where place and possibility meet. — Stuart Dybek
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Top 10 Library Books Quotes
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Abdul Kalam
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. — Charles Bukowski
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. — Malcolm X
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. — Jorge Luis Borges
The real education begins in the library, it begins with books. If you can learn to like to read, you never need to go to school. — Naval Ravikant
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on the human body. I was hooked. — Steven Gundry
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Reading Books In Library Quotes
I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense. — Warren Buffett
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. — E. B. White
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. — John Waters
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. — Ann Richards
We are drowning in information
but starved for knowledge. — John Naisbitt
A library is a hospital for the mind.
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. — Richard Riordan
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S. I. Hayakawa
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. — Laura Bush
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. — Emma Thompson
Literary Quotes
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. — Franz Kafka
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. — Joseph Pulitzer
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. — Johannes V. Jensen
To the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. — Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives. — Kathy Acker
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. — Robert Morgan
Books And Libraries Quotes
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. — Assata Shakur
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books. — Plato
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book. — Robert Redford
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. — Neil Gaiman
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. — Shelby Foote
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. — H. P. Lovecraft
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not. — Nick Hornby
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. — Erma Bombeck
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge. — Patrick Ness
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. — Willard Scott
My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. — John Grisham
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. — Matthew Kelly
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. — Alan Dershowitz
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. — Ray Bradbury
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. — Spider Robinson
Library Quotes
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others! — S. R. Ranganathan
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. — Jim Rohn
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. — Keith Richards
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. — Andrew Carnegie
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Public Library Quotes
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. — Mark Twain
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. — Arthur Ashe
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. — Carl T. Rowan
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries. — Terence Cooke
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. — Henry Rollins
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. — Bill Gates
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. — Andrew Carnegie
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. — David Mamet
School Library Quotes
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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. — Sachin Tendulkar
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. — Sandra Cisneros
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. — Ray Bradbury
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on. — Christine Quinn
I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own. — Gregory Colbert
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. — Frank Zappa
Library Cards Quotes
When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world. — John Goodman
The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired. — Milton Berle
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. — Hunter S. Thompson
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. — Rita Mae Brown
Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets.
- They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards. — Firoozeh Dumas
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. — E. L. Doctorow
Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card. — Joan Rivers
The most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. — Michael Lipsey
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him. — Emo Philips
Book Collection Quotes
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects. — Sufjan Stevens
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality. — Vladimir Kramnik
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. — Harry S. Truman
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. — Jeanette Winterson
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Carolyn Heilbrun
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name. — Thomas Paine
Library Research Quotes
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. — Peter Lewis Allen
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out. — Charles Kettering
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. — Roger Ebert
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website. — Nick Bostrom
I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me. — Ben Stein
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system. — Anita Diament
To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it. — John Shelby Spong
I'd best head to the library. Research beckons. — Rupert Giles
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. — Sergey Brin
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research. — Andrew Sean Greer
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book. — Groucho Marx
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. — Mark Twain
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library. — Stephen King
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. — Ray Bradbury
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. — Jo Walton
It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. — Sutton E. Griggs
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