Quotes on Library

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

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

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

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

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

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

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

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

I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

A library is thought in cold storage.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

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.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

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

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.