127 quotes found
“Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.""They're free," Franny said. "I check them out of the library.""Well, thank God for libraries," Caroline said.”
“You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.”
“A recurring theme in the book is instinct versus articulation. Although teen services people may know and understand issues on an instinctive level, they must be prepared to articulate these ideas ...”
“It had always been my habit-- privately I felt it to be an ecstasy-- to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. I was drawn to books that had been read before, novels that girls like...”
“You don't learn about war by sitting in libraries. Though if people spent more time in libraries, maybe there would be fewer wars.”
“Libraries are safe but also exciting. Libraries are where nerds like me go to refuel. They are safe-havens where the polluted noise of the outside world, with all the bullies and bro-dudes and anti...”
“In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone the library. And I never met a library I didnt like.”
“There is no fighting in the Library. Anyone who starts a fight or responds to a challenge will be thrown out. You may think you can take me. You're probably right. But none of you can take the Libr...”
“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.”
“I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves”
“When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.”
“Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.”
“In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.”
“There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.”
“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or in its management. To the great mass of the people it comes as their fir...”
“The door of Reverend Verringers impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a pine plank; the Reverend is unmarried, and has need of an irreproachable housekeeper. Simon is ush...”
“I like libraries. Its a comfort that knowledge can be saved for so long.”
“Suppose each of us make up a list of, say, fifty or more books that we believe should be in the library. Then , when Robinson goes to the bookseller in Philadelphia let him start with the first of ...”
“The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?”
“We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value informat...”
