#libra

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books. ↗

— Carlos María Domínguez

#bibliophiila #book-collecting #books #collection #libraries

One can never had too many librarian friends. ↗

— Jennifer Chiaverini

#librarians #friendship

Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system! ↗

— Vera Brosgol

#library #teen #humor

CREATION The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. 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. — Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475 Norman COUSINS (1915- ) ↗

— Cousins

#life

THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue! ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#humor #libraries #thomasina #humor

Some people write letters, in the library. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#library #imagination

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#intelligence

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#reading #life

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. ↗

— John Green

#life-s-library #read #life

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#life