Best 1113 quotes in «library quotes» category

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

A library is a palace of dreams.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

A library is a room where the murders take place.

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

A library is a fueling station for your mind.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

A library is the door to many lives.

A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

Are you in a library or what?!  (on the crowd being quiet)

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.