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  • Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

    Thinking   Library   Done  
  • Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

    Prayer   Book   Reading  
    Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing
  • A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  • A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

  • Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books
  • Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

    Lying   Book   Thinking  
    Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953
  • Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

    Book   Reading   Past  
    Speech by Minister Pallo Jordan on launch of the South African Library Week at the Bessie Head Public Library, Msunduzi Minicipality, Pietermaritzburg, www.dac.gov.za. March 14, 2009.
  • My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

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

    Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

    Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada
  • There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

  • A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

  • I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

  • Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

  • I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

    Jobs   Believe   Book  
  • The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

    Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics
  • The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

    Book   Reading   Men  
    Clarence Day (1920). “The story of the Yale University Press told by a friend”
  • Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

    Country   Book   Reading  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics
  • The library is the temple of learning.

  • If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

    Wise   Strong   Reading  
    Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.
  • My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

    Life   Education   Book  
    Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books
  • I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

  • A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

    1775 Sir Anthony Absolute. The Rivals, act 1, sc.2.
  • If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

    Wise   Strong   Book  
    Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.
  • Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

    Reading   Book   Forever  
  • A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

  • Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

    Nature   Book   Reading  
    "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.
  • If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

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

    Travel   Book   Library  
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