Quotes on Library

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?

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

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

Books may well be the only true magic.

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

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

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.

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

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