Library Quotes

A library — a place full of books! Imagine! Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!

~ Gemma Jackson

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

~ Alan Bradley

The shelves were supposed to be loaded with books—but they were, of course, really doors: each book-lid opened as exciting as Alice putting her gold key in the lock. I spent days running in and out of other worlds like a time bandit, or a spy. I was as excited as I’ve ever been in my life, in that library: scoring new books the minute they came in; ordering books I’d heard of—then waiting, fevered, for them to arrive, like they were the word Christmas.

~ Caitlin Moran

Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted.

~ Kate Morton

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in the back of the English class where there were shelves of old paperbacks, and in the school library, a large room filled with books and old armchairs, where he read stories as enthusiastically as some children ate.

~ Neil Gaiman

With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua’s hands. “One of my favorites.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.

~ Isabel Allende

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

~ Lemony Snicket

The Planeswalker knowYOu take the card from the libraryAnd bury it when you're done.On the path, you face history.Walk the path, do the math:Start with the prime numbers under 100Whose digits give you 10.Choose the happy median.Add it to: The square root of The cube of five divided byThe sum of 3 and 2.

~ Megan Frazer Blakemore

Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Upon reading, great stories by Great Spirits, the glorious inspiration penetrated our soul; we can’t help but to shed tears. It was a soul soothing and a deep spiritual awaken.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

~ George Mercer Dawson

It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last day of the week, when the rest of the world is having its relaxing Saturday off and coming to gloat over you as it acquires its Sunday-reading best seller, if you work in a library you begin just at noon to wish devoutly that you'd taken up scrubbing-by-the-day, or hack-driving, or porch-climbing or- anything on earth that gave you a weekly half-holiday!

~ Margaret Widdemer

The world is quiet here.

~ Lemony Snicket

If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.

~ Aya Ling

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

~ Emma Watson

Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. to philosophy textbooks and Norton literature anthologies, on the top shelves where they looked good but stayed out of reach since there's no reason for opening them ever again. Then we went by genre: mysteries, cozies, modernists, mountains, sci-fi, beloved childhood volumes, books we bought abroad, books required in school we couldn't sell back, books bought for us we'll read soon, books bought for us we have no intention of reading, books we want to read but are too long for a commitment with our current schedules...We're not really done with this organization, and I doubt we ever will be, but that's one great part about it.

~ Joshua Isard

Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He’s quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He’s a brown-haired man with an unkempt beard and thick-framed hipster glasses. He slides a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills into the open window of Geraldine’s car. “Your fly’s unzipped,” Geraldine points out, disgusted. “Who gave you a license to sell hot dogs, buddy?

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.

~ Manoj Arora

Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?

~ S.a. Tawks

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A library is a hospital for the mind.

~ Anonymous

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

~ Alberto Manguel

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

~ Alberto Manguel

Even the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth,Sits with the genius of the EarthAnd turns the key to the whole world.--Hear It Again

~ Ted Hughes

Until I was left with nothing but life and books, I realised these two gracious gifts, where enough for me to exist.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish to continue reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Until a man begins to read, then He will discover himself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am happy to have all the books I need to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Heaven would be a comfortable chair, a library, Diet Coke, and an occasional cheese pizza. Sex once in a while. No talking. ~ Drew Stirling

~ Jayden Hunter

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

~ Amit Kalantri

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.

~ Amit Kalantri

People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution.

~ Amit Kalantri

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

~ Peggy A. Borel

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

~ Neil Gaiman

A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single shelf better society and far more select company than all the drawing-rooms of Europe, America, and South Africa.

~ E. Norman Torry