Quotes about libraries, page 2
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
quote by Rita Dove
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Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
quote by Nicholas Meyer
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Libraries are undoubtedly the most interesting buildings ever designed: temples of knowledge built on billions of words, guaranteed to last for centuries.
Camelia Oprița in book The wall of thoughts (2020)
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America, why are your libraries full of tears?
quote by Allen Ginsberg
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
quote by Anthony Burgess
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I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
quote by Shimon Peres
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There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
quote by Martin Lewis Perl
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We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.
quote by John Callahan
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I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
quote by Mick Jagger
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Prospero: Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.
classic line from the play The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1611)
Added by Dan Costinaş
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The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead.
Marguerite Yourcenar in Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
quote by Barbara Tuchman
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
quote by Carolyn Wells
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
quote by David Strathairn
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Your library is your paradise.
quote by Desiderius Erasmus
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Your library is your portrait.
quote by Holbrook Jackson
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
quote by Mark Twain
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
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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.
quote by Laura Bush
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
quote by Saul Bellow
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