A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
A library is a repository of medicine for the mind — Greek Proverbs
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 is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. — Norman Cousins
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell
A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them. — Lois Ehlert
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. — Cornelia Funke
My alma mater was books, a good library. — Malcolm X
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. — Henry Rollins
A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window. — Stewart Brand
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers. — Kami Garcia
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
New York Public Library Quotes
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. — Robert Bloch
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people. — Lisa Yuskavage
I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute. — Lisa Yuskavage
Be the same person privately, publicly and personally.
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq
We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library. — David Castle
I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun. — Natalie Portman
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates. — Cheyenne McCray
Importance Of Library Quotes
Your mind can be the best library, if you don't let the termites of ego eat it. — Vishesh Panthi
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. — Matthew Kelly
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. — Edwin Percy Whipple
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up. — John W. Kirklin
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. — Art Modell
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children. — Scott Turow
Rich people have big libraries, poor people have big TV's.
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries. — Irving Stone
It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future. — Danielle Steel
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. — Jodi Rell
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment. — Tom Peters
Library Books Quotes
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Abdul Kalam
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
No diet will remove all the fat from your body, becayse the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
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
A library is a hospital for the mind
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
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 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
Librarian 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
I'm a born librarian with a sex drive. — David Bowie
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him. — S. R. Ranganathan
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. — Melvil Dewey
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
Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every year to control the public mind.
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
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle. — Sean O'Casey
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
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
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
Let us not be a society where honest in public equals weird.
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. — Laura Bush
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
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
At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries recognized that such "Americanization" could be achieved through literacy. Thus, teaching immigrants to read was not just a benefit in and of itself; literacy would also serve the interests of democracy. — Kevin Mattson
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
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead. — Caitlin Moran
Real education is valuable, no matter where it comes from: an ivy league school, a public library or your grandmother. — Bryant H. McGill
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. — Bill Gates
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
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. — Carl Sagan
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
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects. — Joseph Lancaster
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it. — Patrick Ness
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. — Ben Affleck
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. — Clyde Tombaugh
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my father being a veteran of World War II, not being able to use - having to sit behind Nazi on American military bases, I lost my fear of jails and death. — Jesse Jackson
I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about the status of American culture there are still more public libraries than there are McDonald's. During the worst of the Depression not one public library closed their doors. — David McCullough
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. — Doris Lessing
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work. — Herman Wouk
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. — John F. Kennedy
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library. — Samuel Johnson
Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer. — Carla Hayden
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. — Adam Weishaupt
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
With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities. — Bill Gates
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. — Studs Terkel
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. — Philip Freelon
The best place to find things: the public library. — Edward Bernays
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. — Carl Sagan
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. — Ray Bradbury
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