Library Quotes - Page 38

• I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Order, Boredom

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.486, Harvard University Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Darkness, Dawn

  Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

  Neil Gaiman

  Civilization, Red, Lines

  6 Copy quote

• You can't have a great university without a great library.

  Joe Paterno

  University

  "At Penn State, a Bitter Reckoning" by Michael Bérubé, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2011.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

  John Dingell

  Book, Environmental, Burning

  9 Copy quote

• I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.

  Leo Kottke

  Air, Views, Events

  5 Copy quote

• Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Knowledge, World, American Indian

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.194, U of Nebraska Press

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Teacher, Reading, Night

  5 Copy quote

• The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Doors, People, Done

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Space, Mind

  "Landmark US library set to close" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy - all and everything fed my dreams. Then as an adult whenever I would go on location the first thing we would do as a family is sign up at the closest library. Not only would we find books, but what was happening in that town, because the library is the head of the community.

  Susan Sarandon

  Dream, Book, Imagination

  21 Copy quote

• Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Ordinary, Tvs

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2017

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Children, Book

  44 Copy quote

• How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

  Louis Kahn

  Book, Light, Offering

  57 Copy quote

• A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Citizens, Information

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Libraries really are the gates to the future.

  Neil Gaiman

  Gates

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

  Bill Moyers

  Democracy, Matter, Size

  4 Copy quote

• Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.

  Woody Allen

  Memories, Book, Reading

  4 Copy quote

• Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mother, Book, Fate

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most beautiful people are all in the library.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Beautiful, People, Beautiful People

  12 Copy quote

• A library is all the university you will ever need.

  Ray Bradbury

  Needs, University

  4 Copy quote

• Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Heart, Character

  5 Copy quote

• There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, Drawing, Dining

  4 Copy quote

• Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

  Ray Bradbury

  College, Eight, Age

  9 Copy quote

• Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

  Libba Bray

  Dark, Torches, World

  9 Copy quote