Libraries Quotes

"It's really important that we look after our libraries."

“The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.”

"A library is a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world."

Neil Gaiman

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

Jorge Luis Borges

"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."

Ray Bradbury

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

Norman Cousins

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people.”

Andrew Carnegie

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

Walter Cronkite

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library.”

Lady Bird Johnson