My Favorite Library Quotes

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.  ~Harold Howe former US Commisioner of Education

  
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."  ~Jorge Luis Borge

"It's no use going to school unless the library is your final destination.  

~Ray Bradbury

 

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. 

~Dr. Seuss

"Information is the currency of democracy."

"I cannot live without books" 

~Thomas Jefferson

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." 

~Joseph Brodsky
 

 
"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
"I must say television is very educational. The minute someone turns it on, I go to the library and find a good book." 

~Groucho Marx
  

 "Books were my path to personal freedom."

~Oprah Winfrey
 

"Everyone forgets...that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. "

~Nicholas Brendon (as Xander Harris in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."

~Walter Cronkite

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

~Mark Twain
 

We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge. 

~John Naisbitt: author of Megatrends

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

~Roger Ebert

"What is more important in a library than anything else--than everything else--is the fact that it exists."

~Maya Angelou

"All the riches in the world couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be."

~Malcolm Forbes

"My alma mater was books, a good library."  

~Malcolm X

"The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society."

~Edward Asner: actor famous for playing Lou Grant on Mary Tyler Moore Show

"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

"Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission."

~Toni Morrison

"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog."

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"The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class; it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life."

~Gloria Estefan