Library Quotes

Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour shall come in which I must leave this world, may it please God to take me from my ladder—from before my shelves of books!...

~ Anatole France

The library was the best place in the world.

~ Anita Anand

For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from environments where people don't read, the loss of a library is a tragedy hat might keep them from ever discovering the joys of reading-or from gathering the kind of information that will decide their lot in life.

~ Michael Moore

In the Library you took your good times where you could find them.

~ Scott Hawkins

I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them, that was important too.

~ Deborah Meyler

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

~ Jo Godwin

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

~ Alice Hoffman

He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can read and write start fighting for those who can't, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open.

~ Terry Pratchett

A man's library opens up his character to the world.

~ Matthew Pearl

The student has his Rome, 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.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

~ Melvil Dewey

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.

~ José Latour

The library is not just an information center. It's always been a refuge for anyone to come to, whatever status in society. For people, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, for lonely people. For every walk of life.

~ Wendy Macnaughton

It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple?Hadn't she mattered at all?

~ Nora Roberts

He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.

~ Kaza Kingsley

An old librarian once said to me, whatever we deal with, coming here is always a visual reward.

~ Josh Hanagarne

Once upon a time in a basement library nook,I stumbled upon my first favorite book.Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled,I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.

~ Tyrean Martinson

We find the library world, like the real world, impossible to understand on a rational basis. We turn then to the outer reaches of our mind and treat librarianship with the irrationality that it deserves. While we most often turn to humour merely to enjoy ourselves, we do sometimes do so to make a point. That point is simply that the world of librarianship is ridiculous and that we should all take a far less serious view of our work. What we accomplish as librarians is not, after all, likely to change the world.~ Norman D. Stevens

~ Peter Gellatly

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

~ Lemony Snicket

I had a friend once who looked at his library and discovered that even if he completely stopped filmmaking (he was a filmmaker too) and just decided to read the books he had in his library, it would take him until he was 100 years old. He was a little bit panicked. But he was courageous. He went out of his house. He went to the bookstore. And he bought ten books.

~ Alain Resnais

Everybody comes to the library naked. That's why they come here - to dress themselves in books.

~ Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Perhaps, Katrine, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought were impossible and all the things that everyone, throughout history, have thought were impossible are not really impossible at all... they never were impossible.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

~ Andrew Smith

At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.

~ David Mitchell

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.

~ Michael Moorcock

Montrose decided then and there that a full library, one made of old-fashioned paper books with bindings, the kind that cannot be electronically re-edited by anonymous lines of hidden code, was just as much a necessity for a free man as a shooting iron or a printing press.

~ John C. Wright

Fourteen is the age when time first starts to make its presence felt. Time took on such a variety of hues in those days that even my frozen mind sometimes reflected the colours of the world around me, and I could feel my thoughts fluttering in the humid, salty breeze. At such moments, when the brilliant blue skies, the flaming carpets beneath the Gulmohur trees in the school grounds and the nut-brown twinkle in Sonia’s eyes splashed into the moments of my life, I felt alive. Only time had no colour in the library. In the library, time simply ceased to be.

~ Indu Muralidharan

The library was still giving trouble: a few books in some of the more obscure corners of the stacks retained some autonomy, dating back to an infamous early experiment with flying books, and lately they’d begun to breed. Shocked undergraduates had stumbled on books in the very act.

~ Lev Grossman

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade. What rot! Surely everything that arouses people's minds, that makes them alert and questing, increases their appetite for books. - Roger Mifflin

~ Christopher Morley

Harriet, to hide her excitement, had turned to the bookshelves in the corner between the windows and the fireplace. The books, untidily arranged, some standing, some piled on their sides, with newspapers and magazines wedged among them, confused her. There were no sets and a great many were paper-backed. She saw friends - Mr. Dickens was present — and nodding acquaintances - Laurence Sterne, for instance, and Theodore Dreiser — but they were among strangers: Henry Miller, Norman Douglas, Saki, Ronald Firbank, strangers all.

~ Jack Iams

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

~ Caitlin Moran

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

~ Gina Sheridan

Books had been her means of escape, now they would be her refuge.

~ Trenton Lee Stewart

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

~ Gina Sheridan

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

~ Zia Haider Rahman

The library was my only blessing. Every time I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted. All day, I looked forward to the happy hours I spent in that beautiful room. My guilt over appa's fate was too heavy to carry up there, and I learned to leave it below, somewhere on the ground floor. I left the house far behind as I walked on the path paved by the books, and every evening, baby Mangalam slept soundly on the bed I made for her on the window seat.

~ Padma Venkatraman

I refuse to use the computers if Google is on them.'Librarian: 'Okay.''--'Librarian: '--''--'Librarian: 'Enjoy your day!

~ Gina Sheridan

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

~ Tatyana Eckstrand

Do you ever hide books you've read over and over again because you're so sick of them?''Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they saw one of the books at the library, so now they think the librarians are book fairies.

~ Gina Sheridan

On less lucid evenings, every library is a haunted cemetery.

~ S.d. Chrostowska