(383 quotes found)
“County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?”
Calvin & Hobbes
“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
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future”
Ray Bradbury
“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
Saul Bellow
“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
“No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.”
Lawrence Clark Powell
“Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.”
Barbara Kingsolver
“To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.”
Timothy Healy
“Your library is your portrait.”
Holbrook Jackson
“My library was dukedom large enough.”
William Shakespeare
