“Libraries are not made, they grow”
Augustine Birrell
“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
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
Jo Godwin
“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
“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”
Carl T. Rowan
“A library implies an act of faith”
Victor Hugo
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
Norman Cousins
