Library Quotes - Page 3

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and information. It is a haven of privacy, a source of both cultural and intellectual sustenance for the individual reader. Since it is thus committed to free and open inquiry on a personal basis, the Library must remain open, with access to it always guaranteed.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

Your library is your paradise.

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.

The public library is the great equaliser.

A library is a growing organism.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.