Library Quotes - Page 7

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less - filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

Libraries are where it all begins.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

A library is a room where the murders take place.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

A library is also a place where love begins.

Every library is an arsenal.