Top Library Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Library quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Susan Orlean
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
- Susan Orlean
Collection: Library
Image of Patrick Carman
I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.
- Patrick Carman
Collection: Library
Image of Augustine Birrell
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
- Augustine Birrell
Collection: Library
Image of Henry Rollins
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
- Henry Rollins
Collection: Library
Image of Laurie R. King
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.
- Laurie R. King
Collection: Library
Image of Richard Russo
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
- Richard Russo
Collection: Library
Image of Jamie Ford
The library is like a candy store where everything is free.
- Jamie Ford
Collection: Library
Image of Tamora Pierce
Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
- Tamora Pierce
Collection: Library
Image of Anita Brookner
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
- Anita Brookner
Collection: Library
Image of John Cotton Dana
The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
- John Cotton Dana
Collection: Library
Image of John Cotton Dana
The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.
- John Cotton Dana
Collection: Library
Image of Carl T. Rowan
The library is the temple of learning.
- Carl T. Rowan
Collection: Library
Image of Roy Blount, Jr.
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
- Roy Blount, Jr.
Collection: Library
Image of Roy Blount, Jr.
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
- Roy Blount, Jr.
Collection: Library
Image of Jana Oliver
Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?
- Jana Oliver
Collection: Library
Image of Augusto Pinochet
My library is filled with UN condemnations.
- Augusto Pinochet
Collection: Library
Image of Katherine Paterson
A library is a feast to which we are all invited.
- Katherine Paterson
Collection: Library
Image of J. Patrick Lewis
I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.
- J. Patrick Lewis
Collection: Library
Image of Dana Stabenow
The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.
- Dana Stabenow
Collection: Library
Image of Luanne Rice
I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.
- Luanne Rice
Collection: Library
Image of Siva Vaidhyanathan
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.
- Siva Vaidhyanathan
Collection: Library
Image of Mark Plotkin
Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.
- Mark Plotkin
Collection: Library
Image of Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Choose an author as you would a friend.
- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Collection: Library
Image of Paul Halmos
The library is the mathematician's laboratory.
- Paul Halmos
Collection: Library
Image of John Ciardi
The public library is the most dangerous place in town
- John Ciardi
Collection: Library
Image of Mary Higgins Clark
A library is a path to the future--find yours there.
- Mary Higgins Clark
Collection: Library
Image of LeVar Burton
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
- LeVar Burton
Collection: Library
Image of Stewart Brand
A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.
- Stewart Brand
Collection: Library
Image of J. C. R. Licklider
It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.
- J. C. R. Licklider
Collection: Library
Image of Richard Saul Wurman
Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
- Richard Saul Wurman
Collection: Library
Image of Italo Calvino
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
- Italo Calvino
Collection: Library
Image of Kwame Dawes
There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.
- Kwame Dawes
Collection: Library
Image of David Strathairn
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.
- David Strathairn
Collection: Library
Image of Stuart Dybek
The public library is where place and possibility meet.
- Stuart Dybek
Collection: Library
Image of Stuart Dybek
Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.
- Stuart Dybek
Collection: Library
Image of Thomas Lovejoy
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.
- Thomas Lovejoy
Collection: Library
Image of Peter Porter
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Library
Image of Carmen Agra Deedy
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.
- Carmen Agra Deedy
Collection: Library
Image of Paula Spencer
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.
- Paula Spencer
Collection: Library
Image of J. B. Morton
A library is a room where the murders take place.
- J. B. Morton
Collection: Library
Image of Frank Westheimer
Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?
- Frank Westheimer
Collection: Library
Image of John Donne
Death is an ascension to a better library.
- John Donne
Collection: Library
Image of Nick Bostrom
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.
- Nick Bostrom
Collection: Library
Image of Virginia Hamilton
Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.
- Virginia Hamilton
Collection: Library
Image of Eleanor Brown
There is no problem a library card can't solve.
- Eleanor Brown
Collection: Library
Image of Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Collection: Library
Image of Peter Lewis Allen
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
- Peter Lewis Allen
Collection: Library
Image of Paula Fox
Freedom is a public library.
- Paula Fox
Collection: Library
Image of Doris Kearns Goodwin
Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Collection: Library
Image of Marilyn Johnson
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
- Marilyn Johnson
Collection: Library