476 Quotes About Libraries

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

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

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

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.

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?

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.

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.