Library Quotes
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A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!
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If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Street library. That's why - that was my hangout, the reading rooms, the North and South reading rooms. I'd go there, and my God, I couldn't believe I had access to all of these books. That was my university.
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I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.
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I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.
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There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
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They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to my local library and get just abut any book in the world - and I don't have to pay a dime!! It's amazing! The library is truly the greatest invention of our civilization.
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Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.
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It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
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I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
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Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
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The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.
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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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The library is my cathedral.
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At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.
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So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!
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I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.
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When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'
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I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years.
