Old Libraries Quotes

#1. That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.

Ruth Reichl

#2. There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.

Carrie Jones

#3. One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Caroline Kennedy

#4. Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement

Bill Kirby

#5. I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school.

Colin Mochrie

#6. For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Gustave Flaubert

#7. Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Bryant H. McGill

#8. Sight is an important thing, August. Without it, our minds invent, and the things they invent are almost always worse than the truth. It's important that they see us. See you. It's important that they know you're on their side.

Victoria Schwab

#9. 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

#10. I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

Thomas Jones

#11. Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

Donna De Varona

#12. a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.

Donna Tartt

#13. I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Harper Lee

#14. There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Scott Douglas