#libra

My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly caved-in walls, my mother lived and read and dreamed, allowing herself to grow closer and closer to Compleat, to notice more and more how fine and straight his shelves remained, despite great structural stress. That sort of moral fortitude is rare in this day and age. By and by, my siblings and I were born and romped on the balconies, raced up and down the splintered ladders, and pored over many encyclopedias and exciting novels. I know just everything about everything—so long as it beings with A through L. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#age

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#basketball court #being #comfortable #court #i

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#lives #lose #ought #people #their

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. ↗

— Tony Benn

#fifty #file #library #public #public library

If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job. ↗

— John Berry

#job #library #probably #unsafe #your

This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#children #comfort #dollars #fall #federal

I'm not a library. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#library

I'm a librarian, i'm a librarian and I like it quiet So, the pages can be heard I'm a librarian, i'm a librarian and I do it for the love of the word ↗

— Jonathan Rundman

#love

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ↗

— Josh Billings

#awake #everywhere #learning #libraries #sleeps

Libraries are not made, they grow. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#grow #libraries #made