Libraries Matter Quotes

#1. The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

Kate Mosse

#2. ...are libraries necessary? We keep having this debate because we have a very skewed idea of why libraries matter.

John Palfrey

#3. And the weather was so damn sick of being predictable; I heard it began snowing in the Sahara and I wanted to tell you that I've changed.

Lang Leav

#4. Blessings don't come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.

Dalai Lama

#5. A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.

Kimberly Karalius

#6. Isn't it funny that if God were to reveal and explain Himself, the majority of the world would necessarily be disappointed?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. Be so without being presumptuous, imposing "our truths," but rather be guided by the humble yet joyful certainty of those who have been found, touched, and transformed by the Truth who is Christ, ever to be proclaimed (see Luke 24:13

Pope Francis

#8. Some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time.

Richard Armour

#9. Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Jackie Tabick

#10. Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

Hideki Tojo

#11. I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

Bram Stoker

#12. No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

Nancy Thayer