Quotes and Sayings about Libraries

In all of the world's books in all libraries in the universe, I couldn't find the words to describe what I feel about you.

Libraries are the intellectual gas stations of the country.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

The library is every child's lighthouse.

Why buy a book when you can join a library?

Libraries represent the very best of civilized society, the housing of an egalitarian access to knowledge. It's what separates us from the apes.

A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it.

Your library is your paradise.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I've done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life - and the lives of countless other Americans.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

Jeod: "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."

I'm sorry, but how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

I feel so extraordinarily happy and free when I read that I'm convinced it could make everything else in my life bearable.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Reading can be as magical as any spell.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face. To all of you who escape into books, I want to thank you for escaping into this one.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Elliot: "I'm not hiding, I was just looking for my... you know, the... I was looking for my dignity."
J.D.: "Did you find it?"
Elliot: "No. I must've left it at college."

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

It even smells rich in here. If a bomb dropped on this place, Britain's GDP would drop by 10%, but it might be worth it. Let the games begin. Which one of these people will I hate the most?

I think love should come out of nowhere, sweep you up completely.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.