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!

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.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Don't join the book burners!

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.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

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.

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.

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

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.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

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.

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