LIBRARY QUOTES
Published on Nov 22, 2015
A compilation of quotes regarding the value of libraries.
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What is more important in a library than anything else - more than everything else - is that it exists. Archibald MacLeish
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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
Bill Gates
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Some things are better
when they are new.
Information is better when it's used.
(Focus on EEI, Winter 1994)
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A library is not a basic service. It is merely an essential one
Susan Goldberg
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A library is not just a
building full of books.
It is a garden to
cultivate individuals.
Ban Ki-Moon
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
T.S. Eliot
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Whatever the cost of libraries
the price is cheap compared
to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter Cronkite
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We may sit in our library but be in all quarters of the earth.
John Lubbock
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Libraries store the energy
that fuels the imagination.
They open up windows
to the world, inspire us to explore and achieve,
and contribute to improving
our quality of life.
Sidney Sheldon
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The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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I have always imagined that Paradise would be
a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
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I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain
our library resources and a national intelligence capable
of utilizing them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Civilized nations
build libraries;
lands that have lost their soul
close them down.
Toby Forward
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In any library in the
world
I am at home,
unselfconscious,
still and absorbed.
Germaine Greer
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A library is the only single place
you can go to learn something new,
be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited
all in one day.
And for free.
Amy Neftzger
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In a culture that is
increasingly privatized,
libraries are among
the last free spaces we have left.
Public libraries are
worth fighting for...
Robert Dawson
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library.
The only entrance requirement
is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson
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A library is the delivery room
for the birth of ideas,
a place where history
comes to life.
Norman Cousins
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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
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The library is the
temple of learning,
and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl T. Rowan
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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.
Maya Angelou
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A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.
That includes health information.
And mental health information.
It's a community space.
It's a place of safety,
a haven from the world.
Neil Gaiman
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From fifth grade on,
I worked at our public library.
The pay, a pittance,
was almost superfluous.
All through high school,
I looked forward to summer
as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week.
Julia Glass
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