Library Quotes - Page 35

• Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

  Michael Dirda

  Order, Two, Elements

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• Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.

  Marc Brown

  Fun, Cards, Hard

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• In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

  Amadou Hampate Ba

  Men, Burning, Old Man

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• Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

  Amadou Hampate Ba

  Men, Old Man, Dies

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• You can judge a man by the books in his library.

  Mark Skousen

  Book, Men, Judging

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• When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds

  Niall Williams

  Father, Book, Eye

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• Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

  Karin Slaughter

  Children, Book, Giving

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• There is no problem a library card can't solve.

  Eleanor Brown

  Cards, Problem, Solve

  "The Weird Sisters". Book by Eleanor Brown, 2011.

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• Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read.

  Kim Boykin

  Falling In Love, Book, Want

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• All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

  Charles Gates, Jr.

  Art, Business, Book

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• No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.

  Earl G. Graves, Sr.

  Long, Achievement, Black History

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• I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

  Alex Haley

  Today, Debt, Poet

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• If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

  Alex Haley

  Real, Men, Understanding

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• During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Airports, United States, Saws

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• The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Book, Offering

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• When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.

  Marijane Meaker

  Running, Jobs, Book

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• I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me.

  Don Pendleton

  Lonely, War, Loneliness

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• The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Space, Darkness

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.

  Carrie Jones

  Book, Fighting, Dust

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things go beep and ding and ring, where you’ve got mail and you’ve got messages, when I enter a library, I feel that I am still entering a temple.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Temples, Entering, World

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• Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

  Mu Xin

  Intelligent, Firsts, Fine

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• We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.

  Julian Simon

  Technology, Hands, Years

  "The State of Humanity: Steadily Improving". Cato Institute Policy Report, www.cato.org, September/October 1995.

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• The public library is the great equaliser.

  Keith Richards

  Public Library

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• I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

  Patrick Ness

  Waiting, Looks, World

  "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

  Alan Bennett

  Clothes, Shoes, Feet

  Alan Bennett (2016). “Keeping On Keeping On”, p.296, Profile Books

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