Library Quotes

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Don't join the book burners!

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

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.

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

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?

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

A library is infinity under a roof.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

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.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and information. It is a haven of privacy, a source of both cultural and intellectual sustenance for the individual reader. Since it is thus committed to free and open inquiry on a personal basis, the Library must remain open, with access to it always guaranteed.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?