Library sayings

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◆ What in the world would we do without our libraries?

- Katharine Hepburn99

◆ We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

- John Lubbock99

◆ 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.

- Jeanette Winterson99

◆ 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 Asimov99

◆ Libraries raised me.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

- Albert Einstein99

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

- Lemony Snicket99

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

- Harold Howe99

◆ 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 Carter99

◆ If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

- Dorothy Gambrell99

◆ 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.

- Sarah Beth Durst99

◆ Your library is your paradise.

- Desiderius Erasmus99

◆ A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

- Doris Lessing99

◆ A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.

- Douglas Jerrod99

◆ No possession can surpass, or even equal, a good library to the lover of books.

- J. A. Langford99