825 Quotes About Library

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near my father's desk. A library is of course a real place, but it is also an unreal one. What happens there is mostly silent. I think I've always liked the whispering aspect of libraries, the hushing librarians and my feeling of solitude among many.

Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

What are you doing?” Demos’s eyes followed me.“There never seems to be enough time to explore the libraries.” Demos’s eyebrow rose. “Did you hit your head?”“I’m serious.” I sighed. “We have this gift to transport ourselves to any library anywhere in the world. It’s amazing, but we never get to enjoy it, to just sit in one and read books written ages ago.

We exist in the world of books.

If it were up to me, every child would have a year in the library before they went to school.