Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kennedy

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

John F. Kennedy

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Richelle Mead

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Umberto Eco

Libraries can take the place of God.

Umberto Eco

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

Pete Seeger

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

Peter Singer

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith.

Robert Bly

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Rita Dove

Libraries are where it all begins.

Richard Russo

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every library is an arsenal.

Robertson Davies

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

Virginia Woolf

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

William Godwin

He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.

Roy Blount, Jr.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

Susan Orlean

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

Studs Terkel

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

Storm Jameson

invaders always destroy libraries.

Stewart Brand

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Paula Spencer

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

Peter Porter

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

Pete Hamill

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

Stephen King

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

Tony Benn

I am a public library

Tamora Pierce

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

Scott Turow

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Stuart Pearce

Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)

Laura Bush

When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.

Laura Bush

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

Laura Bush

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.