Library Quotes
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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
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You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.
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Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.
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... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
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You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.
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I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.
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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
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Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!
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I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
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A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
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Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.
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I spent my life in the library reading books.
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I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
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In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.
