Come to the feast.”Whitechapel Library, Aldgate East.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

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

The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. Using it...

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise.

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.

Una biblioteca raffinata è come un intestino. Bisogna stare molto attenti a cosa ci si mette dentro. Si prende in considerazione soltanto ciò che è opportuno. Se in una biblioteca di questo genere dovesse capitare...

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the...

A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library...

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai, — un villaggio senza scuole, — una lettera senza ortografia.”(“A house without a library...

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

About the library,” he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page.”Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?” I inquired.He wrote and whispered the words...

Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising...

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you’d be able to find whatever you were looking for.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.

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

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the “Arts and Lit non-fiction section)I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search for knowledge is what brought men to the moon; but it took knowledge...

The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The books of the libraries!

An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

Jacksonville has more public libraries than people who know how to read.

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.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

[D]on’t ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that’s what they’re there for. Use your library). Don’t apologize to this author for buying books second...

There’s so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it’s so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you’re free to choose any...

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.

improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung...

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library … A Library should be full of exclamations! … A Library should be...

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away...

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That’s where the books and smart girls were.

We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or...

Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all...

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years’ War and the Opium Wars...

But I didn’t mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.

This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it & the soul of those who read it & lived it...

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual’s right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper,...

I like libraries. It’s a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.