Quotes of: Libraries Keyword

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'

Tommy Cooper

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

T.S. Eliot

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

Tatyana Eckstrand

Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.

Toby Forward

‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut

The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The books of the libraries!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Matthew Lesko

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism." [ , ALA interview 2011]

Neil Gaiman

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

Jane Green

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Beverly Cleary

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

Richard Flanagan

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

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

Scott Turow

I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.

Helen Oyeyemi

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Jorge Luis Borges

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

Jean Fritz

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Samuel Johnson

Stanley Spector: [watching it rain frogs outside the library window] This happens. This is something that happens.

Magnolia