Quotes of: Libraries Keyword

Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Throne of Glass

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

The Pleasures of Life

Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.

Taste

What better place to kill time than a library?

The Thirteenth Tale

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

George Mercer Dawson

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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.

Patti Smith

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Peter Singer

We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

Scott Douglas

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Stephen Fry

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

Suzan-Lori Parks

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Tony Benn

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Lady Bird Johnson

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

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

Mark Jason Dominus

In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.

Miguel de Icaza

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

Matthew Lesko

You want books? We're in a library-books! The best weapons in the world! -Tenth Doctor

RTD

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

William Hurt

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Jose Saramago

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Carl T. Rowan