Library Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

  Herbert Croly

  Education, School, Purpose

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• Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Book, Guilty, Christianity

  Desiderius Erasmus (1974). “The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500”, p.115, University of Toronto Press

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• There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

  Henry Channon

  Sleep, Insomnia, House

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• Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  School, Marijuana, Long

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• For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh.

  John Bagot Glubb

  College, Years, Cities

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• When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.

  William Lacy Clay, Jr.

  Book, Kids, School

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• Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment. A library is one of those places. In a library you can learn by following your own nose, which is very different from someone telling you what you should learn. Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I've seen it happen. It happened to me.

  Bill Harley

  Children, Fall, Kids

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• If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

  Mary Landrieu

  Kids, Cells, Numbers

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• Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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• The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."

  Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford

  Daughter, Queens, Views

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• At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

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• My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouragement, Tomorrow

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• Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

  Laura Bush

  Keys, Community, Cards

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• Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Giving, Quality, Doe

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• I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

  Drew Carey

  Teenager, Book, Writing

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• Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

  Janet Fitch

  Home, Writing, Exercise

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• The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

  Luis Valdez

  Community, Migrants, World

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• When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

  Jesse Ventura

  Games, Pay, Owners

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• It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Writing, Burning

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• I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read. I would go into the Savannah Public Libraries in the stacks and see all of the newspapers from all over the country. Did I dream that I would be on the Supreme Court? No. But I dreamt that there was a world out there that was worth pursuing.

  Clarence Thomas

  Dream, Country, Would Be

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• The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Life Changing, Book, Mysterious

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• Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.

  Richard Riordan

  Book, Passion, Los Angeles

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