Public Library Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

  David Mamet

  Library, Chicago, Alma Mater

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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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• 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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• I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Exercise, Kansas, Library

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• In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can buy any book in the world on your iPad, or off Amazon, you don't go the public library. The public library becomes about homeless gentlemen sleeping in chairs.

  William Monahan

  Book, Sleep, Ipads

  Source: collider.com

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• In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

  Daniel Quinn

  Secret, Library, Facts

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.5, Bantam

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• Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Boys, Library, Dies

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am a public library

  Tony Benn

  Library, Politics

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• You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

  Ben Affleck

  Hard Work, Library, Fifty

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• I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we went down to the public library trying to check out some books and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors! It was a public library! I never went back to that public library until July 5th, 1998, by this time I'm in the Congress, for a book signing of my book "Walking with the Wind"

  John Lewis

  Cousin, Brother, Kings

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• Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

  Vera Brosgol

  Hate, Google, Library

  Vera Brosgol (2011). “Anya's Ghost”, p.142, Macmillan

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• All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Sex, Teenage

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• My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

  Bill Russell

  Oakland, Library, Cards

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

  Edward Bellamy

  Book, People, Liberty

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.101, Applewood Books

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• When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of feeling of an event about it. And when it's on video, it's like something is being discovered in the library or something. It's like having a second life in public libraries. It's just like individuals, and it's less of a... We can't participate in it the same way.

  Wes Anderson

  People, Feelings, Library

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Book, Library, Want

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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

  Library, Strange, Censorship

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

  Henry Rollins

  Library, Would Be, World

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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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• With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, Hands, Library

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• There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Distance, Book, Home

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

  Mark Ruffalo

  Teacher, Reading, Night

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• 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

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• I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
  You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Thinking, Mind

  "BRK Annual Meeting 2007 Tilson Notes". Buffett FAQ, buffettfaq.com. 2007.

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