Public Library Quotes - Page 2

• If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Strong, Reading

  Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

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• Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Book, Writing, Library

  Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

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• If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

  Sara Blakely

  Moon, Men, Pantyhose

  “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.

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• 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.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Healing, Library

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Educational, Book

  To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

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  When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, God, Growing Up

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards and James Fox, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

  Carl Sagan

  Support, Library, Librarian

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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  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.

  Mark Twain

  War, Names, Memorial

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.146, Purdue University Press

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Giving, House

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• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Media, White, America

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• 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.

  Russell Banks

  Reflection, America, Community

  Russell Banks (2011). “Lost Memory of Skin”, p.95, Profile Books

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

  Saul Bellow

  Reading, Book, People

  Saul Bellow (2016). “Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories”, p.10, Odyssey Editions

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• For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

  Pete Hamill

  Imagination, House, Library

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• [T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

  Siva Vaidhyanathan

  Library, Degrees, Money Power

  Siva Vaidhyanathan (2005). “The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System”, p.124, Basic Books

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• The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  America, Library, Desks

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.103, Dial Press

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Vanity, Expectations

  'The Rambler' no. 106 (23 March 1751)

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• I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, School, Library

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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• I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Real, Educational

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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• Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

  Joshua Prince-Ramus

  Space, Library, Lasts

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• 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.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Reading, Moon

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.300, Princeton University Press

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• Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real continuity from one generation to the next, and the next after that. So long as we keep reading, and reading to our children, there will be hope for our shared cultural heritage and the future of our world.

  John Lescroart

  Children, Real, Reading

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924".

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

  Bell Hooks

  Library, United States, Institutions

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about the status of American culture there are still more public libraries than there are McDonald's. During the worst of the Depression not one public library closed their doors.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, Mcdonalds, Doors

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

  John Cotton Dana

  Library, Next, Firsts

  John Cotton Dana (2012). “A Library Primer”, p.16, tredition

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