Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

George Bancroft

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

Joe Paterno

You can't have a great university without a great library.

John Donne

Death is an ascension to a better library.

Joe Jonas

I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!

Linda Sue Park

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

John Lubbock

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

Jim Rohn

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

Jim Rohn

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

Elizabeth Gilbert

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Dear me, how I love a library.

Judith Martin

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Kate Mosse

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

Lois McMaster Bujold

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Kami Garcia

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

Patrick Carman

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

Maggie Stiefvater

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

John Ciardi

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

Jessamyn West

With enough libraries, all content is free.

Pat Conroy

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

LeVar Burton

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

Marian Burros

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

Noam Chomsky

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

Oprah Winfrey

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

Noam Chomsky

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

Patti Smith

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

Mary Higgins Clark

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Holbrook Jackson

Your library is your portrait.

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.

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.