Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Richardson

presents all the options; we show the library of tea.

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

Charles Spurgeon

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

Arthur Ashe

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Arthur Ashe

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

Carl T. Rowan

The library is the temple of learning.

Brandon Sanderson

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Augustine Birrell

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Augusto Pinochet

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

She's insurance. She'll go in a living library of trees.

Alberto Manguel

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

Alberto Manguel

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Alberto Manguel

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Albert Einstein

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Alexandra Adornetto

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

Alexander Smith

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Annie Dillard

It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

Alex Haley

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Dana Stabenow

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Anita Roddick

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

Andrew Wiles

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

Anita Brookner

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Jandy Nelson

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jane Austen

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Janis Ian

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.