Top 100 The Library Quotes
#1. The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.
Anne Rice
#2. Books had become a symbol of trust and libraries places of peace and stability. In all the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels of ability. It was the one place they could all be safe, p195
Rachel Caine
#3. The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.
Dee Williams
#4. But every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories.
Jack Gantos
#5. Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.
Laurel Lea
#6. The Constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment," I told him when he
stepped down from the podium.
"What?" he innocently asked. "Getting you out of the library? I believe it's
due time, Sentinel."
"Now that I'm a real, live vampire?"
"Something like that,
Chloe Neill
#7. My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#8. Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Frank Zappa
#9. When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.
Ray Bradbury
#10. Inspector had been in the library, and might possibly have
Ford Madox Ford
#11. In the library, surrounded by books and computers and scientific journals, I feel like I could grow.
Jeremy Bronaugh
#12. I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Jeanette Winterson
#13. Children play from the library of their imagination and it feels real to them.
S. E. Entsua-Mensah
#14. And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'
Peter Ackroyd
#15. At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.
Myla Goldberg
#16. In seventh grade ... I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
Beverly Cleary
#17. Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books."
"They're free," Franny said. "I check them out of the library."
"Well, thank God for libraries," Caroline said.
Ann Patchett
#19. And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
Cornelia Funke
#20. The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical
Arthur Koestler
#21. The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;
David Mitchell
#22. The air in the library rooms was silent, full of ideas, the thinking of the writers of books, the thinking of the readers of books.
Cynthia Voigt
#23. It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
#24. I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the library. I've always been fascinated by the supernatural, particularly movies and TV shows that manage to blend humor with the horror - 'Supernatural', 'Buffy', 'Angel.'
Molly Harper
#25. You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before you could read, let you taste the magic of stories, took you to the library, and allowed you to stay up later at night to read in bed.
Jim Trelease
#26. Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription Medicine for the soul.
Diodorus Siculus
#27. But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
Alberto Manguel
#28. In the Library you took your good times where you could find them.
Scott Hawkins
#30. I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.
Shirley Jackson
#31. We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.
Robin Sharma
#32. You are not to blame,
The world's a viscous place,
So go on and think how you want,
You will not be alone in your thoughts,
Well you will but you won't in a way,
Cause a girl thought it too in a book that the library bought
Amanda Palmer
#33. Somehow, even outside the library and our clearing in the woods, we were still in our own world. Everything else could fade away, and he and I would remain, tied together by something I couldn't quite expline. In its simplest term, love.
Rachel Schieffelbein
#34. A ring? He reached to twist it, and Clary remembered Hodge in the library at the Institute, taking the ring from Jace's hand ...
Cassandra Clare
#35. Elizabeth sank into the leather wing chair in the library of her mind and began to read.
L.J.M. Owen
#36. The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
Melvil Dewey
#37. It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.
Emma McLaughlin
#38. The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."
Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess Of Longford
#39. Fayza leaned in, squinting, as if she didn't hear me correctly: one of the library of power moves that adults used to signal that other adults were fucking idiots.
Daryl Gregory
#40. Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.
Sue Townsend
#41. My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.
Peter Golkin
#42. Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hours have gone.)
Ellen Klages
#43. The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.
Claudia Gray
#44. When you steal a book, you steal from the world. the Library propaganda said
Rachel Caine
#45. The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history
Carl T. Rowan
#46. It is also said that history is written by the victors. This was particularly true in the Old Realm, where the official historians at the Library of Avaress had been required for centuries to be named Victor.
Robert Kroese
#47. I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.
Beverly Cleary
#48. Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?
Frank Westheimer
#49. The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.
Luis Valdez
#50. What should girls read?" Caroline asked, as Anna entered the library. "Everything," Anna replied. A
Joanne Dobson
#51. If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.
Alex Haley
#52. How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.
Louis Kahn
#53. She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing.
Genevieve Cogman
#54. I suggest we stay in the library. If there's a gun battle, they're unlikely to flee in this direction. If there isn't a gun battle, none of them are big readers anyway.
Jon Nikrich
#55. The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.
Leslie Knope
#56. I couldn't find a decent threesome guidebook at the library, so I started scouring the Internet, reading biographies, and asking lots of people lots of questions. As it turns out, America is full of trisexuals eager to tell their stories.
Victoria Vantoch
#58. I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.
Pete Seeger
#59. One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.
Richelle Mead
#60. The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren't breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program. The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.
Lev Grossman
#61. I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
Ben Stein
#62. 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
#63. It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'
Kevin Brownlow
#64. it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Alan Bradley
#65. The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you had company and sympathy but your thoughts were your own.
Jeanette Winterson
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Anonymous
#67. The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.
Jorge Luis Borges
#68. You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all ...
Terry Pratchett
#69. I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.
Pearl Abraham
#70. OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
Gary D. Schmidt
#71. You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
Jasper Fforde
#72. There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
Martin Lewis Perl
#73. I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.
Tom Glazer
#74. The two of them were sat at the circular desk in the library, waiting for 1pm so they could go for lunch. Kayleigh
E.A. Price
#75. We crossed one of the subterranean rivers, then wound our wag through the library quarter and the Chamber of Birds.
(Carter says I should tell you why it's called that. It's a cave full of all sorts of birds. Again
duh. [Carter, why are you banging your head against the table?])
Rick Riordan
#76. I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.
Justin Trudeau
#77. The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
Albert Einstein
#78. Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.
Thomas Lovejoy
#79. When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.
David Sedaris
#80. Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#81. Dead like slipped on a bar of soap or like Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping?
Nick Harkaway
#82. You could get a book then. There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures of strangelooking cities and ships. It made you feel so happy.
James Joyce
#83. Books, bringing people together.' That would make a good slogan for the library.
Kasie West
#84. Your answers lie here, Rovender said, gesturing around the library.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#85. One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession," one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, "was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives where information is not a commodity ... There's a subversive element to librarianship that I adore.
Marilyn Johnson
#86. What's the fastest route to the library in Peachtree City? (Carlos)
What? You've got an overdue book? (Gabrielle)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the library of great men lay the living minds of dead bodies!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#88. From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.
Julia Glass
#89. My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'
Sophie Hannah
#90. I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.
Mary Kubica
#91. Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
Alberto Manguel
#92. During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks.
Ray William Johnson
#93. Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.
Lemony Snicket
#94. The only reason we've held them off this long is because we burned the library." "The library?
Laini Taylor
#95. I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.
Woody Norris
#96. Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
Michael Caine
#97. The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.
Gordon Korman
#98. Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
Peter Lewis Allen
#99. The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.
Lev Grossman
#100. I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.
Andrew Smith
