Library Quotes

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.

~ Maya Angelou

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.

~ Sidney Sheldon

Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away, up the stairs. does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.“Loads more than I do,” said Ron, shaking his head.“But why’s she got to go to the library?”“Because that’s what Hermione does,” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the library.

~ J.k. Rowling

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

~ Ally Carter

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

~ Daniel Handler

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

~ J. Donald Adams

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. (1872)

~ Victor Hugo

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

~ Augustine Birrell

now,never mindthe boy who came out of that reading rooma new man,safe in the hope of what was to comein the summers of his life.

~ Thabo Jijana

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

~ Alberto Manguel

I won't be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

~ J. Patrick Lewis

Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second.He said, I'll check for a heartbeat.I said, You don't need to. I can see it in his eyes.Dewey was gone.

~ Vicki Myron

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

~ J. Patrick Lewis

To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.

~ Ace Antonio Hall

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

~ Isaac Asimov

We awaken by asking the right questions.

~ Suzy Kassem

A library is treasure chamber of knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A library is more precious than a bank.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.

~ Suzy Kassem

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is a difference between information and knowledge, and the most important role of the library is not providing access to information; it is supporting, enhancing, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge - in other words, education.

~ Kathleen Mccook

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

~ Walter Moers

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') there are lies-to-bosses ('as much as they need to know') lies-to-patients ('they won't worry about what they don't know') and, for all sorts of reasons, lies-to-ourselves. Lies-to-children is simply a prevalent and necessary kind of lie. Universities are very familiar with bright, qualified school-leavers who arrive and then go into shock on finding that biology or physics isn't quite what they've been taught so far. 'Yes, but you needed to understand that,' they are told, 'so that now we can tell you why it isn't exactly true.' Discworld teachers know this, and use it to demonstrate why universities are truly storehouses of knowledge: students arrive from school confident that they know very nearly everything, and they leave years later certain that they know practically nothing. Where did the knowledge go in the meantime? Into the university, of course, where it is carefully dried and stored.

~ Terry Pratchett

If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age

~ Baris Gencel

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

~ Isaac Asimov

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

~ Harold Howe

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.

~ Keith Richards

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

~ Laura Bush

Open the book and read it to renew your mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can only learn to read by reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A library is chamber of treasures.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To read is to renew thy mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you wish to renew your mind, read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had applied for cards at the free library.

~ James A. Michener

The world of books is the only paradise there is.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every Intelligent person was once a fool.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I love buying books to create my sacred library.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita