L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.”
“Libraries can take the place of God.”
“Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.”
“Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.”
Source: History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican continent
“Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.”
“Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.”
“Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.”
“Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom”
“Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!”
“Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.”
“Libraries help you to dream!”
“Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!”
“Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.”
“Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.”
“Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.”
“Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.”
“Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.”
“Libraries raised me.”
“Libraries really are the gates to the future.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”
Source: Among Others
“Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.”
“Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.”
“Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.”
“Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.”
“Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”
“Libraries were a solace in the Depression. They were warm and dry and useful and free; they provided a place for people to be together in a desolate time. You could feel prosperous at the library. There was so much there, such an abundance, when everything else felt scant and ravaged, and you could take any of it home for free. Or you could just sit at a reading table and take it all in.”
Source: The Library Book
“Libraries were filled with ideas- perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
“Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“Libraries were the most magical of places, ones that celebrated knowledge and welcomed all.”
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
“Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.”
“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.”
Source: The Library at Night
“Libraries...house our dreams.”
“Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.”
Source: A Safari Into Satire
“Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.”
“Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.”
“library is a beautiful old thing”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Library is not a museum or zoo, it is the temple of knowledge and religion of wisdom”
“Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.”
Source: Demon Eyes
“Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks." -Sharon, Library of Souls”
Source: Library of Souls
“Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action appeared, where is lays out his case in a more popular form. The money sentences are “Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. It has happened again and again in the past, and it will happen in the future, too.”
“Library rules the world, son.”
Source: Ink and Bone
“Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.”
“Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.”
“Library: A place where the dead lie.”
Source: The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days.
“Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.”
“Libraste al mundo de un par de monstruos, por eso te sentiste bien; no disfrutaste del asesinato en sí, sino de su consecuencia. Hiciste el bien.”
Source: Shinigami Géminis