476 Quotes About Libraries

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman

The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren't quite the same, she'd found; something about the prosaic smell of other people's houses and fingers seeping off the pages diluted that sense of magical worlds, but untouched, unread, unexplored books were something else.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Most people either love or hate old libraries. To some, a room like this--dim, high-ceilinged, dusty, smelling of old paper and crumbling leather--would be oppressive, a place to flee from in search of sun and air. To others, like me, it was a wonderful cave filled with unimaginable treasures and unexpected treats. I always found myself inhaling deeply when I entered the stacks, as if trying to absorb part of them into my bloodstream.