Andrew Carnegie Libraries Quotes

#1. Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.

Anatoli Boukreev

#2. He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.

David Nasaw

#3. If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

Andrew Carnegie

#4. I have the universe on my chin.

Jack Passion

#5. The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.

Stephen Colbert

#6. Almost instinctively he went about learning
the truth and at the same time disbelieved it.

John Steinbeck

#7. I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.

Andrew Carnegie

#8. From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

John Kricfalusi

#9. 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