Library Quotes that Will Make You Want to Sit Down with a Good Book

These quotes about libraries are going to make you want to browse the rows of your local library.

1. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

2. “Who doesn’t love a library? It is a place you can go in any town and discover the world.” – Pat MacEnulty

3. “Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.” – Thomas Jefferson

4. “The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport and a library card.” – E.L. Doctorow

5. “The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein

6. “To build up a library is to create a life.” – Carlos Maria Dominguez

7. “What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists.” – Archibald MacLeish

8. “Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague.” – Eleanor Crumblehulme

9. “The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.” – Henry Rollins

10. “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.” – Andrew Carnegie

11. “Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

12. “I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child and that never left me.” – Maya Angelou

13. “A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world.” – Neil Gaiman

14. “I ransack public libraries and find them full of sunk treasure.” – Virginia Woolf

15. “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.” – Norman Cousins

16. “I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.” – Ray Bradbury

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

18. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” – Anne Herbert

19. “Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.” – Barbara Kingsolver

20. “Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.” – Robin Sharma

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