Library Quotes - Page 4

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out.

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

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.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.