#libra

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#food #historian #libraries #muse #shelter

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#door #library #me #more #nothing

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#back #cabinet #college #copy #days

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #every #every time #go #got

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

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. ↗

— Hugo Ball

#allow #beautiful #begin #burn #everyone

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#life #luxury #necessities

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. ↗

— Melvil Dewey

#librarian #militant #must #triumphant

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library. ↗

— Laura Bush

#american #child #every #library #school