Libraries quotations

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◆ Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

- Robin Sloan99

◆ I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

- Roger Zelazny99

◆ Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

- Charles Ogden99

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

- Harold Howe99

◆ Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

- Neil Gaiman99

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

- Katharine Hepburn99

◆ Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.

- Graham Chapman99

◆ You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

- Elizabeth Kostova99

◆ Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ Libraries raised me.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

- Jo Walton99