A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free. — Amy Neftzger
The public library is the great equaliser. — Keith Richards
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. — Norman Cousins
I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers. — Kami Garcia
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
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. — Rita Dove
Short Library Quotes
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. — Jim Rohn
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
Don't join the book burners! — Dwight D. Eisenhower
When an old man dies, a library is burned with him. — African Proverbs
My alma mater was books, a good library. — Malcolm X
Library Image Quotes
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? — Lily Tomlin
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. — Rita Mae Brown
Rich people have big libraries, poor people have big TV's.
Reading 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
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
A library is a hospital for the mind
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. — Rodney Dangerfield
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
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean. — Mary Kingsley
We are drowning in information
but starved for knowledge. — John Naisbitt
Library Books 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
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
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
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
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
A library is a hospital for the mind.
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
The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired. — Milton Berle
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
Public Library Quotes
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell
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
A library is a hospital for the mind.
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
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. — Neil Gaiman
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
To the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. — Carl T. Rowan
The public library is where place and possibility meet. — Stuart Dybek
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
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
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
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh
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
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
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. — Matthew Kelly
College Library Quotes
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. — Shelby Foote
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
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life. — Linus Pauling
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule. — Agnes De Mille
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. — Ray Bradbury
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
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. — Ray Bradbury
Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever. — Malcolm Turnbull
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh. — John Bagot Glubb
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life. — Ray Bradbury
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
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
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
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
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. — Hedy Lamarr
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. — Virginia Woolf
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. — Alexander Kluge
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. — Aphra Behn
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world. — John Goodman
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
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