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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
— Richard Russo
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
— Peter Porter
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
— David Baldacci
We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.
— Herbert S. White
A library - a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!
— Gemma Jackson
Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.
— Michael Weston
I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.
— Kam Williams
I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work
— Larry Brown
You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives.
— Hester Young
I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means.
— Haruki Murakami
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
— David Harsanyi
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
— Walter Savage Landor
The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.
— Lemony Snicket
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
— Fran Lebowitz
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
— William Hazlitt
I spent many, many hours in ... libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
— Arthur Ashe
Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.
— Eleanor Crumblehulme Library Assistant University Of British Columbia
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
— Germaine Greer
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
— T. S. Eliot
If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.
— Richard M. Daley
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
— Andrew Carnegie
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.
— George Bancroft
When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough
— Josh Hanagarne
One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.
— Sarah Noffke
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!
— Linda Sue Park
Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?
— Arthur D. Hlavaty
The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers.
— Anita Anand
Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.
— Jeanette Winter
Meek young men grow up in libraries.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.
— Richard Allington
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
— Katharine Hepburn
Support your libraries ... or else!
— Margaret Atwood
Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
— Joanne Harris
Libraries raised me.
— Ray Bradbury
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
— Rita Mae Brown
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Elizabeth sank into the leather wing chair in the library of her mind and began to read.
— L.J.M. Owen
Libraries are the pride of the city.
— Amy Tan
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?
— Henry David Thoreau
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Excitement — J. Patrick Lewis
With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
— Lemony Snicket
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
— David Mamet
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.
— Richard K. Morgan
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
— LeVar Burton
Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.
— Stephen D. Krashen
Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.
— Madeleine Albright
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
That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.
— Ruth Reichl
Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.
— Vartan Gregorian
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
— Susan Orlean
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.
— Douglas Brinkley
They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
— Arthur Ashe
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.
— David Strathairn
Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!
— Stephen Fry
Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
— Charles Ogden
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
— Ray Bradbury
I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library.
— Richard Castle
The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.
— Stephen D. Krashen
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
— Phyllis Schlafly
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
— Elizabeth Kostova
I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.
— Charles M. Schulz
A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.
— Trudy Wallis
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
— David McCullough
In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone - the library. And I never met a library I didn't like.
— William Stafford
When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.
— Mike Bove
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
— William Shakespeare
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Invaders always destroy libraries.
— Storm Jameson
Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.
— E. Jean Carroll
Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.
— Stephen D. Krashen
I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves — Rita Dove
He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.
— Garrett Leigh
The library was the best place in the world.
— Anita Anand
Libraries ... house our dreams.
— Nikki Giovanni