Public Library Quotes (page 2)

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• lion
• trust
• new

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. Robert Bloch

• best
• library
• local

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. Andrew Wiles

• looking ahead
• kindness
• exercise

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. Clyde Tombaugh

• library
• publication
• always

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. Matthew Lesko

• library
• time
• look

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. Charles Kuralt

• book
• helpful
• learning

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. Jose Saramago

• library
• old
• teacher

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. Mark Ruffalo

• library
• files
• publicly

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. Tony Benn

• hope
• humanity
• library

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Samuel Johnson

• small
• party
• library

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away. Marc Andreessen

• spiritual
• winter
• library

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahea? Marguerite Yourcenar

• children
• school
• book

To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment to them when they're 15 years old. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? Fran Lebowitz

• different
• world
• library

Like all fundamentalists who get their clammy hands on the levers of power, the market fanatics are going to kill off every humane, life-enhancing, generous, imaginative and decent corner of our public life.... Market fundamentalism, this madness that's infected the human race, is like a greedy ghost that haunts the boardrooms and council chambers and committee rooms from which the world is run these days. The greedy ghost understands profit all right. But that's all. What he doesn't... Philip Pullman

• horse
• thinking
• library

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared to what we spend on our horses? John Ruskin