Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
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.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
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.
The library is the temple of learning.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.
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