A library is but the soul’s burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
Henry Ward Beecher – Library
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man.
Henry Ward Beecher – Library as part of man
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher – Library as necessity
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Library
The public library has continually been at the forefront of information technology implementation. This has most often been associated with improvements in service and efficiency. However the relationships between public libraries and new technologies have always produced
more dystopian speculations concerning the inevitable obsolescence of the traditional library as a public space, and most importantly, the demise of specific practices of learning about culture.
Martin Hand – Library and Digitization
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
Thomas Carlyle – Library
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.
Thomas Jefferson – Library
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
Jacques Ellul – reading & knowing
Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick – Library
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter Cronkite – Library
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
James Baldwin – Books
There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
Tom Masson – Library
If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.
Cicero – Library
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin – Library
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
