Libraries are where it all begins.
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.
Please just look at those Indonesian cities: Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan. . . are there any other cities on earth, of that size, with such an absolute chronic lack of culture, and institutions that are supposed to make people think? Like theatres, archives, grand libraries, concert halls, art cinemas, progressive bookstores. . . There is nothing here.
invaders always destroy libraries.
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.
Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
Libraries are the pride of the city.
There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?
The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.
There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.
