Public Library Quotes - Page 3

• 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, Library, Found

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• It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Girl, Ambition, Boys

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer.

  Carla Hayden

  Numbers, People, Library

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

  Julie Andrews

  Teacher, School, Opportunity

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• A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

  Doris Lessing

  Tyrants, Library, World

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• We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic acts? I challenge you to name one...Do we need to wait until our cities lie in smoking ruins before we wake up to the fact that a first-class public library is a vital link in national defense?

  Garrison Keillor

  War, Lying, Book

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• I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  New York, People, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.

  Lewis Henry Steiner

  Mean, Men, Differences

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• Don't forget to support your public library.

  Bob Dylan

  Support, Library, Forget

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• Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

  James A. Michener

  Library, Would Be, World

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• NC LIVE has the potential to give citizens across North Carolina immediate access to the rich array of information resources housed by the libraries on UNC's 16 campuses. It will allow unprecedented collaboration and sharing of resources among sister UNC institutions, the community colleges, and the state's public libraries.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  College, Giving, Community

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• The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Views, Church

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• We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Kids, Phones, Library

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• Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

  Marc Andreessen

  Distance, Party, Phones

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Teacher, Book, Library

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.38

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• In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

  George Weah

  Book, America, Ideas

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

  Andrew Wiles

  Library, Problem, Found

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.

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• ...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases. Until her discovery of Something Fresh on the top shelf of Ruth's bookshelf one bored summer morning, Frankie's leisure reading had consister primarily of paperback mysteries she found on the spinning racks at the public library down the block from her house, and the short stories of Dorothy Parker. Wodehouse's jubilant wordplay bore itself into her synapses like a worm into a fresh ear of corn.

  E. Lockhart

  Summer, Morning, Block

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.72, Hot Key Books

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• Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

  Cheyenne McCray

  New York, Library, Olivia

  Cheyenne McCray (2009). “Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

  Stuart Dybek

  Library, Cards, Research

  Stuart Dybek (1990). “The coast of Chicago”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

  Charles Bukowski

  Library, Downtown, Rooms

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• Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Kitchen, Library

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

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• On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

  Craig Thompson

  Kids, Library, Firsts

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• Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

  Peter Porter

  Library, Gold, Realms

  Peter Porter (2010). “The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

  James McGreevey

  Children, Kids, Reality

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