Quotes on Public Library

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. _x000D_ You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

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

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

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

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

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

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.

Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

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.