Top 24 Quotes About Friends Of The Library
#1. We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution.
Plutarco Elias Calles
#2. I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
Annabella Sciorra
#3. She was handed more personality than other mortals, and chemically fertilized in a glasshouse - now her bionic strength allows her to teleport platters of watercress sandwiches from the kitchen to the library, where she's beating her friends at backgammon.
Jardine Libaire
#4. She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible until the arrival of real adulthood proves conclusively that it is not.
Julian Fellowes
#5. I need a sitting room where I can entertain my friends, but I must have a library where my books entertain me.
Brooks Adams
#6. I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
Maeve Binchy
#7. When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.
Saint Augustine
#8. There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
J. Donald Adams
#9. In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
Alberto Manguel
#11. Not everything that offends us should offend us, and not everything that offends us is persecution.
Russell D. Moore
#12. I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.
Willow Shields
#13. There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.
Pete Hamill
#14. He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body and allowed his soul to step out into the world and make friends.
Milan Kundera
#15. The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob
H.L. Mencken
#16. One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
Blake Mycoskie
#17. The library serves as a gathering place for friends who
share the love of books. It further serves as a resource for those who escape the pressure of everyday
life, doing it by losing themselves in the written word.
Kristen Ashley
#18. I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.
Katherine Boo
#19. One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#20. A heart filled with emotions doesn't require rituals and venues for expressing true love.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#22. And every book, you find, has its own social group
friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.
Caitlin Moran
#23. As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother
John Sentamu
#24. A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.
Stephen Fry
