Library Quotes - Page 26

• A library should be like a pair of open arms.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Reading, Pairs, Arms

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• More people should use their library.

  Regis Philbin

  Reading, People, Use

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• What can I say? Librarians rule.

  Regis Philbin

  Reading, Literacy, Librarian

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• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Reading, Fearless

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• When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, School

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• A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

  Daniel Dennett

  Knowledge, Way, Scholar

  Daniel C. Dennett (2017). “Consciousness Explained”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• (Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Sorry, Book

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• The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Kids, Special

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• A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

  Julie Andrews

  Powerful, Reading, Kids

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• Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Book, Reading

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• At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Children, Reading

  "We Compared Obama’s Words To Trump’s And The Result Will Make You Sad" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2016.

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• Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Kids, Play

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• ...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Reading, Kids

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• As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Children, Book

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• At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps with which he marked the books. One said: 'Does not agree with the Koran - heretic, must be burned'. The other said: 'Agrees with the Koran - superfluous, must be burned'.

  Nils Kjaer

  Book, Two, Egypt

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• Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wisdom, Heart, Intelligence

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

  Harriet Martineau

  Funny Inspirational, Reading, Knowledge

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.176

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• We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

  Robin Sharma

  Mother, Children, Son

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.1, Jaico Publishing House

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• It reminds me of like this pathetic friend that everybody had when they were a little kid who would let you borrow any of his stuff if you would just be his friend. That's what the library is. A government funded pathetic friend.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Kids, Funny Friend, Government

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• The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that library, specified by the organization of molecules-but the universe and literature are organizations of identical, interchangeable objects; they are information systems.

  Heinz Pagels

  Book, Science, Law

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• The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

  Paula Poundstone

  Reading, Book, Thought Provoking

  "Richard Lewis, Julie Halston, Paula Poundstone and More Set for August Comedy Nights at Bay Street". www.broadwayworld.com. July 27, 2016.

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• The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Xenophobia, Book

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• I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

  John le Carre

  Reading, Book, Men

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• The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Reading, Book, Thought Provoking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Newspapers, Accounts

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.669, Modern Library

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