#libra

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#library #wild

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poor

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#librarians #internet

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#humanity #library #future

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#history #library #tears #tears

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#reading #library

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD. ↗

— Marilyn Johnson

#information #librarians #education

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#lady-gaga #librarians #lifestyle

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

#community #enrich #libraries #community

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#community #democratic #entrance #interest #library