A Quotes
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“A library is a good place to soften solitude; a place where you feel part of a conversation that has gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years even when you're all alone. The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that is waiting to speak to you, and behind that was someone who truly believed that if he or she spoke, someone would listen. It was that affirmation that always amazed me. Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage — the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read. I was struck by how precious and foolish and brave that belief is, and how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them. It declares that all these stories matter, and so does every effort to create something that connects us to one another, and to our past and to what is still to come.”
Source: The Library Book
“A library is a growing organism.”
Source: Colon Classification
“A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.”
“A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous”
“A library is a house of hope. It's a place where we all, whatever our situation, can feed our ideas and develop our dreams.”
“A library is a palace of dreams.”
“A library is a path to the future--find yours there.”
“A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.”
“A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.”
“A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future.”
Source: This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
“A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.”
“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”
“A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!”
“A library is a room where the murders take place.”
“A library is a temple of sorts.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.”
“A library is all the university you will ever need.”
“A library is also a place where love begins.”
“A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.”
“A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.”
“A library is chamber of treasures.”
“A library is infinity under a roof.”
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
“A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.”
“A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.”
“A library is more precious than a bank.”
“A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.”
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey
“A library is the door to many lives.”
“A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.”
“A library is the only place you can go--from cradle to grave--that is free, safe, democratic and no one will try to flog you anything. You don't have to part with a penny to travel the world. It's the heartbeat of a community, offering precious resources to people in need. It's a place just to be, to dream, and to escape -- with books." And what's more precious than that? So here's to all library workers. We need you.”
“A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.”
“A library is the temple for the learned”
“A library is thought in cold storage.”
“A library is treasure chamber of knowledge.”
“A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.”
“A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.”
“A library, no mater how humble or grand, is a series of sacred gateways. You pass through them and leave your own city behind; you journey through time and space; and for a little while, you escape the confines of your own circumstances. Each of us who are readers gets to live through a multiplicity of eras; we get to tiptoe through, to borrow Jorge Luis Borge’s phrase, ‘a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent, and parallel times.”
Source: Cloud Cuckoo Land
“A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what you’re going to read next."
[The Wonderful and Terrible Habit of Buying Too Many Books, PWxyz (news blog of Publishers Weekly), February 16th, 2012]”
“A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.”
“A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.”
Source: Philobiblon
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
“A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.”
“A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.”
Source: Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science
“A library should be like a pair of open arms.”
“A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden and where such an evil thing as a tax-collector may be forgotten and, peradventure, forgiven.”
Source: Round My Library Fire: A Book about Books
“A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.”