Library Quotes - Page 5

Death is an ascension to a better library.

You can't have a great university without a great library.

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like. But, I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.