Quotes on Libraries And Librarians

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.