Library Quotes - Page 37

• Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

  August Bier

  Cancer, Cards, Paper

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• Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Museums, Dna, Culture

  Vartan Gregorian (2008). “The Road to Home: My Life and Times”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Opportunity, Self, Freedom Of Speech

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• The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Justice, Imagination, Honor

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• The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Race, Humanity, Diaries

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• The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Heart, Democracy, Elements

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• So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

  Fabian

  Mean, Nerd, Massive

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• I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

  Tom Glazer

  Jobs, Book, Home

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• Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

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• The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

  William Penn

  Wisdom, Country, Garden

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Greatness, Civilization, World

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

  Arthur Baer

  Blood, Pressure, Newspapers

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• One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Book, House, One Day

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• Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Book, School, People

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• People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

  Simeon Strunsky

  People, Democracy, Want

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• When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Flower, Race, Dust

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• You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before you could read, let you taste the magic of stories, took you to the library, and allowed you to stay up later at night to read in bed.

  Jim Trelease

  Book, Night, Magic

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• Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

  Stefan Petrucha

  Real, Hero, Ocean

  Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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• The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

  John Allen Paulos

  Book, World, Internet

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• Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

  Nigel Dennis

  Book, Agency, Three

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• The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Reading, Age, Delight

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• The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

  Matthew Lesko

  Country, Support, Way

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• What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

  Matthew Lesko

  Strange, Censorship, Opposing

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• For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.

  Lewis Hyde

  Artist, World, May

  Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.67, Vintage

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• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

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