Quotes on “library”

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

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

Me, poor man, my libraryWas dukedom large enough.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

My library is an archive of longings.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Come with me,' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together.

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.