85 Libraries Quotes for You to Enjoy

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. Laura Bush

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

Wisdom Knowledge Library World Lost Believe I Believe I Believe That Sums Libraries Scant Vast Throughout Attention Dies Burned Elder

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury

Future Past Libraries No Future Without

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? Margaret Atwood

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. Alexis Carrel

Reality Dangerous Fog Long Too Those Libraries Atmosphere Like Lecture Up Them Rooms Themselves Us Separates Who Shut

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries. Amitava Kumar

History Culture Cinema Nation Books Monuments Libraries Smaller Houses Erect History Books Squares Survives Spaces Grand Village

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Heraclitus

Me Made Libraries Poets Am Greek Little Professor Assistance

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Josh Billings

Wisdom Learning Sleeps Everywhere Libraries Tiptoe Awake Wide Wide Awake

Libraries can take the place of God. Umberto Eco

God Libraries Take Place

Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires. Adam McKay

Teacher Libraries Rather Parks California Schwarzenegger Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger Salaries Than Taxes Cut Billionaires Many Millionaires Raise

At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine. Alexander Chee

Writing Sometimes First Living Resources Way Libraries Would Fine Touch Having More More Or Less Push Institutional Mostly Access Making Making A Living Any Maybe While Aside Straightforward Teaching Less

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. Andrew Motion

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries. Bjarne Stroustrup

Tools Libraries Would Encourage Standards

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed. Brewster Kahle

History People Long Demanding Libraries Records Long History Had Read Reader Dealing Led Up Authoritarian Being Organizations Rounded

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. David Harsanyi

Library Libraries See Rarest Failing Like Most Them Then

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats. Foster Friess

You Cats Result College Libraries See Generosity Cleveland Buildings Go Were Clinic Lot Any Mayo Fat

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. George Weah

Day Library Every Day Community Every Books Libraries Out New Reach Ideas How New Ideas Coming Left Discussed America Behind Africa Being Public Public Library Many

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries. Guido van Rossum

People Perception Advice Own Changes Libraries About My Own Somewhat Colored Python Course Least Still Where Which Ask Standard

There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all time. It was considered revolutionary, and some libraries wouldn't carry it. But it's a classic because it taps into empowerment for kids, kids facing dangers and winning. Henry Selick

Time Best Book People Long Picture Wild Consider Considered Dangers Kids Libraries Carry Classic Some All-Time Facing Winning Long Tradition Picture Book Empowerment Because Tradition Revolutionary Where Which Many Even Things

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