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  • The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

    Teacher   Book   Library  
    Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.38
  • What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

  • The public library is the most dangerous place in town

  • As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

    Book   Library   Littles  
    Raymond Chandler (2002). “The High Window: A Novel”, p.302, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.

    Christian   Sex   Teenage  
  • Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

    Real   Book   Character  
    Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company
  • I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

    Hate   Google   Library  
    Vera Brosgol (2011). “Anya's Ghost”, p.142, Macmillan
  • Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books
  • At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries recognized that such "Americanization" could be achieved through literacy. Thus, teaching immigrants to read was not just a benefit in and of itself; literacy would also serve the interests of democracy.

  • It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.

    Source: www.researchgate.net
  • I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

  • When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

    Games   Library   Pay  
  • A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

    Tyrants   Library   World  
  • There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

  • If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

    FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 24, 2012
  • In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can buy any book in the world on your iPad, or off Amazon, you don't go the public library. The public library becomes about homeless gentlemen sleeping in chairs.

    Book   Sleep   Ipads  
    Source: collider.com
  • Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

    Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.13, Encounter Books
  • I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam
  • A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

    Book   Writing   Thinking  
  • I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

    Reading   Book   Home  
  • I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

    Believe   Book   Soul  
    Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.11, Faber & Faber
  • I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

    Real   School   Library  
    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam
  • I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

    Jobs   Believe   Book  
  • We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.

  • One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.

    New York   Home   Pride  
  • Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

    Space   Library   Lasts  
  • The library is the temple of learning.

  • I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about the status of American culture there are still more public libraries than there are McDonald's. During the worst of the Depression not one public library closed their doors.

    Source: www.bostonglobe.com
  • Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

    Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.
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