476 Quotes About Libraries
- Author Charles Ogden
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Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
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- Author Ray Bradbury
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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- Author Andrew Carnegie
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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
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- Author Elizabeth Kostova
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You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
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- Author John F. Kennedy
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[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
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- Author Alberto Manguel
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In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken a book? You think that's worse than murder?"The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like "What's so bad about genocide?
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- Author David Eddings
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The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.
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