Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deb Caletti

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Bill Moyers

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Bill Watterson

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

We're going to get a new library here.

Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries

Bjarne Stroustrup

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Bill Gates

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Beverly Cleary

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Chris Harris

Some students are getting swept out of the Library - not literally, but figuratively.

A library is a repository of medicine for the mind

Brandon Sanderson

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Augustine Birrell

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Augusto Pinochet

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

Arthur Ashe

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Arthur Ashe

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

Carl T. Rowan

The library is the temple of learning.

Jandy Nelson

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jane Austen

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Janis Ian

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

bell hooks

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Diana Wynne Jones

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Diana Wynne Jones

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

Daniel Handler

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

Daniel Handler

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Charles Spurgeon

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.