Quotes on Library

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

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

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

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.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,_x000D_ _x000D_ Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,_x000D_ _x000D_ Strong and content I travel the open road.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.