Library Quotes - Page 2

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

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.

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

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.

Once you know what it is in life that you want to do, then the world basically becomes your library. Everything you view, you can view from that perspective, which makes everything a learning asset for you.

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

A library is infinity under a roof.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

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.

I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things go beep and ding and ring, where you’ve got mail and you’ve got messages, when I enter a library, I feel that I am still entering a temple.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.