Quotes on Libraries And Librarians

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

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

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.