Quotes on libraries
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
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Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
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Richard Powers Quotes
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
A library is thought in cold storage.
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Herbert Samuel Quotes
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Erma Bombeck Quotes
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.
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John Allen Paulos Quotes
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. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.
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Lesley Conger Quotes
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.
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Sholem Asch Quotes
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
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Norman Cousins Quotes
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.
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Malcolm Forbes Quotes
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
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Archibald MacLeish Quotes
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.
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John Alfred Landford Quotes
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
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George Mercer Dawson Quotes
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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Germaine Greer Quotes
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
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Shelby Foote Quotes
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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Mark Twain Quotes
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
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Jo Godwin Quotes
Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul).
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Berlin Royal Library Quotes
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.
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William Dyer Quotes
To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.
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Timothy Healy Quotes
A man's library is a sort of harem.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.
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Jesse Shera Quotes
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.
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Library at Thebes Quotes
Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely under-employed.
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Charles Medawar Quotes
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes