#libra

Libraries raised me. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#me #raised

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. ↗

— John Callahan

#between #bookstores #both #caught #competing

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#congress #cover #i #immortal #library

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#blind #blind man #day #face #fell

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

#book #choose #entirely #feeling #go

Libraries are where it all begins. ↗

— Rita Dove

#libraries #where

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. ↗

— George Weah

#america #behind #being #books #coming

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #every #every time #go #got

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#before #classes #did #doctors #guinea

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#every #history #library #only #should