You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its essence, but that it was there.

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.