The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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.
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Libraries are not made, they grow.
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
My alma mater was books, a good library.
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