L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
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“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”
“Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.”
“Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?”
Source: Retro Demonology
“Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.”
Source: The Road to Home: My Life and Times
“Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.”
“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
“Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.”
“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.”
Source: Glory Be
“Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.”
“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.”
Source: The Major Works
“Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.”
“Libraries are built so guys could go & peep through the gaps on bookshelves hoping that a girl would look back & blush while picking a book .”
“Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.”
“libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands”
Source: The Prague Cemetery
“Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.”
“Libraries are indispensable pillars of knowledge, research, and education. Keep visiting a nearby library to broaden your mind.”
“libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder”
“Libraries are lungs, [...] books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep hope alive.”
Source: The Paris Library
“Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.”
“Libraries are medieval forests masking opportunity and danger; every aisle is a path, every catalog reference a clue to the location of the Holy Grail. It is here that I become privy to the sacred songs of kings and the ballads of rogues. Here are tales of life-and-death struggles of other wayfarers as they battle personal dragons and woo fair maidens. Walking down this hallway, I am a knight entering the forest in search of the truth...”
Source: A Hideous Beauty
“Libraries are models of gift economies, providing free access not only to books but also music, tools, seeds, and more. We don't each have to own everything. The books at the library belong to everyone, serving the public with free books. Take the books, enjoy them, bring them back so someone else can enjoy them, with literary abundance for all. And all you need is a library card, which is a kind of agreement to respect and take care of the common good.”
Source: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
“Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.”
“Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.”
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”
“Libraries are not made, they grow.”
Source: Collected essays
“Libraries are our friends.”
“Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.”
“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
Source: Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.”
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer”
“Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.”
“Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.”
Source: Books and the world
“Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.”
“Libraries are the future of reading.”
“Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow's book buyers for today's dollars, especially when it's obvious that the source in question doesn't have any more dollars to give you.”
“Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.”
“Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.”
Source: Animal Dreams: A Novel
“Libraries are the pride of the city.”
“Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.”
“Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.”
“Libraries are the true heart of the world. The world we live in today is information-driven, and the bulk of quality information the world feeds and survives on are preserved in libraries. Just like humans, animals and plants need quality food to stay healthy, the world needs quality information to stay out of chaos, and such quality information are housed in libraries. Without libraries, the world will die of ignorance.”
“Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.”
“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.”
Source: History of the University and colleges of Cambridge: including notices relating to the founders and eminent men
“Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.”
“Libraries are where it all begins.”
Source: Conversations with Rita Dove
“Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read.”
“Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.”
Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
“Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.”