Library Quotes - Page 36

• Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.

  Jay Leno

  Yesterday, Presidential, Dallas

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• I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Agency, People, Giving

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• A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

  Plato

  Book, Wealth And Happiness, Wealth Of Knowledge

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• In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

  Henry Rollins

  Would Be, World, Starbucks

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• Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.

  E. Jean Carroll

  Fashion, Brain

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• Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

  Janis Ian

  Culture, Librarian, Hallmark

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• With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one
  might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create
  a library.

  Sacha Guitry

  Book, Writing, Might

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• I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

  Sara Sheridan

  Book, Users

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• I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

  Sara Sheridan

  Erosion, Issues, Liberty

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• Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

  LeVar Burton

  Doe, Institutions, Access

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• Books, I found, had the power to make time
  stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

  Jim Bishop

  Book, Retreat, Making Time

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• I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Tools, Standards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Distance, Men, Museums

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

  Dana Stabenow

  Apes, Steps

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• In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Mistake, Eye, Giving

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

  Molly Harper

  Girl, Librarian, Curious

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square.

  P. M. Forni

  Home, Airplane, Squares

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• It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Fall, Law

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• I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  Find Me

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.275, Melville House

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• I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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• My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Running, Father, Book

  Jorge Luis Borges (2013). “Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.101, Melville House

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• What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Imagination, Imagine

  "Trialogue #24: The Heavens (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham)". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1992.

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• The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

  Herman Wouk

  Doors, Found, Modest

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• Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

  John Jakes

  Adventure, Eye, Promise

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• We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

  Philip Pullman

  Numbers, Civilized Society, Values

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