825 Quotes About Library

It is fascinating that Baghdad had more than 100 public libraries in the year 891, Cordoba had 70 public libraries at the end of 10th century, while the royal library of Caliph al-‘Aziz, in the year 988, of the Fatimids in Cairo perhaps had more than 100,000 volumes collection arranged in classified order.

She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale figures sprawled silent and motionless over their reading, the reassuring feel of her book cart as she wheeled it down the aisle, and the books themselves, symbols of order on their backs - young adulthood reduced to "YA," mystery reduced to a tiny red skull.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy