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My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer. — Dave Morris

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

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game. — Jesse Ventura

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

Get that Property Of Whitford Public Library stamp and stamp it right on his forehead. Then cross out the library's name and write yours — Shannon Stacey

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

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four ... — Judy Blume

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

My heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips. — Brent Crawford

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. — Bell Hooks

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. — Ben Carson

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. — Studs Terkel

Access to the public library should be a basic human right. — Kaitlyn Dunnett

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

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library. — Jules Verne

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. — Bill Gates

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

The collection had the eclectic impersonality of a public library. — John Fowles

I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center. — Denis O'Hare

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. — Henry Rollins

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

The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves. — Martin Amis

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell

The best place to find things: the public library. — Edward Bernays

Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library. — Marion Jensen

The public library is the most dangerous place in town — John Ciardi

The great white lions from the steps of the Public Library leaped together and threw themselves upon the iron steed and its dark rider. For — Diane Duane

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages
and sages
and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. — Laura Bush

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. — Peter Singer

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. — Leo Tolstoy

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

I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library. — Richard Castle

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. — John Cotton Dana

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. — Karin Slaughter

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

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. — Andrew Wiles

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

As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry — Joyce Carol Oates

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. — David Mamet

Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library. — Douglas Adams

Nine SPEAKING IN TONGUES The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1 — Zadie Smith

CHAPTER 10: For questions about librarians featured in erotic literature, you will find absolutely nothing in the public library. — Josephine Carr

The public library is where place and possibility meet. — Stuart Dybek

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library. — Samuel Johnson

The public library is the great equaliser. — Keith Richards

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. — Robert Bloch

You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library. — Matt Damon