A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
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.
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
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