127 quotes found
“Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.”
“Everything I am is based on this ugly building on its lonely lawnlit up during winter darkness; open in the slashing rainwhich allowed a girl so poor she didnt even own a purse to come in twice a d...”
“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, fr...”
“The library is not just an information center. It's always been a refuge for anyone to come to, whatever status in society. For people, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, for lonely people. For e...”
“What in the world would we do without our libraries?”
“We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.”
“I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.”
“A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.”
“Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isnt whining, it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.”
“All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)”
“The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens...”
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.”
“Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.”
“They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?”
“My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly cav...”
“The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
“Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, witho...”
“When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a politician than a well read working class.”
“Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.”
“Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. You're, say, trying to do a piece on something in Nevada, and you go down to C Floor, deep in the...”
