#libraries

The harvest of the years awaits you here, Culled with slow toil, and heaped with bloody sweat, The truths that men have died to bring to light Are laid before you in these quiet halls. Upon these shelves your eager hands shall find The keys to open doors not yet unlocked, The torch to kindle new and brighter lamps, The chart to plot your course beyond the stars, The clues to all the labyrinths of thought. Here you shall meet the men whose names are carved Deep-hewn forever on the rocks of time... You shall be guests of all the greatest minds. ↗

— Josephine P. Beaty

#libraries #reading #men

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for. ↗

— Brian Selznick

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#libraries #library

Libraries are our friends. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

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What in the world would we do without our libraries? ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

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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

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#libraries #past #without

Libraries are where it all begins. ↗

— Rita Dove

#libraries #where

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. ↗

— George Weah

#america #behind #being #books #coming