Library Quotes - Page 14

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.

I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Why buy a book when you can join a library?

I never went to college, so I went to the library.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.

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.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

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.