476 Quotes About Libraries

Books on the bookshelvesAnd stacked on the floorBooks kept in basketsAnd propped by the doorBooks in neat pilesAnd in disarrayBooks tucked in closetsAnd books on displayBooks filling cranniesAnd books packed in nooksBooks massed in windowsAnd mounded in crooksLibraries beckonAnd bookstores inviteBut book-filled rooms welcomeUs back home at night!

Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.

Every problem that society has, the library has, too, because the boundary between society and the library is porous; nothing good is kept out of the library, and nothing bad.

Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!

We must never underestimate the value of libraries, or the urgency of the need to protect them, in a world that often appears to forget the importance of stories.

Look at all the books in this place. Every one of them is inside you. And you're inside them.""Sweetheart. It's a public library, not my private library. It needs people.""They got out of the habit is all.""The world has changed.""No, everybody needs a story, Miss Perkins. That's something that never, ever changes.

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.

The dark places will not be instinctively frightening, true, but isn’t it better that children fear boogeymen than pedophiles? Isn’t it better that libraries are filled to the brim with stories and not only words?