#libraries

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #libraries




Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.


Brian Selznick


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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


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Libraries are our friends.


Neil Gaiman


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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.


Catherynne M. Valente


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What in the world would we do without our libraries?


Katharine Hepburn


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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.


Andrew Carnegie


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The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.


Polly Horvath


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About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page. Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired. He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells like old stuff." It smells familiar," I suggested. "It smells like words." Because his left side was to me, I couldn't easily take his hand to write. Books are boring," James said as he wrote. They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered. He thought about this and then wrote with a smile, "I hate books." From A Certain Slant of Light


Laura Whitcomb


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Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.


Patrick Ness


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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.


Ray Bradbury


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