#libra

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

#book #choose #entirely #feeling #go

Libraries are where it all begins. ↗

— Rita Dove

#libraries #where

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#ever #found #i #library #local

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement. ↗

— Justin Winsor

#becomes #books #collection #goes #good

Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#children #congressional #develop #federally #finding

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#before #classes #did #doctors #guinea

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ↗

— Heraclitus

#assistance #greek #i #i am #librarians

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day. ↗

— Richmal Crompton

#libraries #reading #time #to-do-list #family

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#been #better #better future #everything #future

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#american #american society #being #cut #destroy