Library Quotes

“You cannot have a first-class city without a first-class library.”

“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”

“The bookshelf is the book's garden.”

“I look upon a library as a most sacred thing.”

“The most important service that a librarian can perform is to link a person with a book.”

“So, if you want to have a great society, you have to have a great library.”

“The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.”

“The library should be a living, breathing thing.”

“A great library contains the diary of the human race.”

“Librarians are the tour guides for all of knowledge.”

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

“The riches of the world are in its libraries.”

“We must accustom the public to look upon our libraries as furnishing the most valuable instrument in their education.”

“A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation.”

“The future of the library is not a place, but a service.”

“A library is the crossroads of all of humanity's dreams.”

“The library is the heart of the university.”

“Libraries are the heart of a community, and we need to support them.”

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the library; the only entrance requirement is interest.”

“A city is a living organism, and a library is its heart.”