Library Quotes - Page 7

• When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

  John Goodman

  Kids, Keys, Cards

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• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 6 Apr. 1775)

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• I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924".

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Reading, Entertainment

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

  Jane Austen

  Reading, Pride And Prejudice Book, Enjoyment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.81, Courier Dover Publications

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• Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, Congratulations, Writing

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• A library is thought in cold storage.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Cold, Storage

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  It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

  John Waters

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.

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• I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Home, Mean

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• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Beer

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.15, Orient Blackswan

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• The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Book, Ideas, Historical

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Media, White, America

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• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Book, Reading

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• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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• In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

  Norman Mailer

  Thinking, Sanctuary, Wonderful

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• The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Civilization, People, Priorities

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• There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Office, Democracy, Earth

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• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Civilization, Support

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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• I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

  Jose Saramago

  Reading, Book, Home

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• He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.

  David Nasaw

  People, Able, Way

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• The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Sea, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• I never went to college, so I went to the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  College

  "Ray Bradbury and the fever of inspiration" by Dan Gillmor, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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• When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

  Margaret Walker

  Book, Healing, Kids

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• You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

  Ray Bradbury

  College, Everyday, Librarian

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