Library Quotes

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

I’ve always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.