Library Quotes - Page 27

• If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

  Richard M. Daley

  Cutting, Community, Funding

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• The public library is where place and possibility meet.

  Stuart Dybek

  Possibility, Public Library

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• If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Garden, Grace, Needs

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• Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

  Georges Bernanos

  Tiny, Firsts, Facts

  Georges Bernanos (1974). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, Doubleday Books

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• Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

  Humphrey Bogart

  Baseball, Moving, Kids

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• Every death is like the burning of a library.

  Alex Haley

  Inspirational, Burning

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• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

  Morning, Horse, Memories

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1967). “Madly in all directions”

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• No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Hands Up, Dresses

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• More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Moving, Book

  "US public library borrowing requirements rise again" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.

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• There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

  Edith Hamilton

  Book, Humility, Unique

  "Three Greek Plays". Book by Edith Hamilton, 1937.

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• For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Song, Laughter

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• Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

  Julian Beever

  Art, Book, Experts

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• I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure -- the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.

  Laura Amy Schlitz

  Girl, Adventure, Thinking

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• That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, “I have to find out what happens next,” and then I want you to head to your nearest library or bookstore to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights.

  Clare B. Dunkle

  Book, Curiosity, Want

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• Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.

  Roberta Gellis

  Children, Home, Heart

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• Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you their philosophies, their concepts of the world, of humanity and of creation. You will learn about events that have shaped our history, of deeds both noble and ignoble. All of this knowledge is yours for the taking… Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

  Neil Armstrong

  Philosophy, Book, Fire

  Neil Armstrong's letter to the children of Troy, Michigan on the opening of its Public Library (1971), as quoted in "Why Libraries Matter: Letters to the Children of Troy, Michigan (From 1971)" by Lucas Reilly on Mental Floss, July 3, 2012.

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• I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!

  Joe Jonas

  Cards, Library Cards

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• I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Book, Smell, Ink

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• I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

  Paul Begala

  Mean Girls, School, Years

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• Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Hands, Dresses

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• Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

  William Hurt

  Hero, Firefighter, Guy

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• To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I knew I would end up owning my own business someday, so I figured my challenge was to learn as much as anyone about all businesses. I believed that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Book, Reading

  "Mark Cuban: America’s Coolest Billionaire". Interview with Daniel Jimenez, finance.youngmoney.com. 2008.

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• Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

  Lil Wayne

  Beautiful, Information, Earning

  "Lil’Wayne Live Blogs Prison" by Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. April 6, 2010.

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