“A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with”
Lawrence Clark Powell
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose”
George Carlin
“With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.”
Doris Lessing
“A library implies an act of faith”
Victor Hugo
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them”
Mark Twain
“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
Isaac Asimov
