Library Quotation

1.       "Libraries are the thin red line between civilisation and barbarism."—Neil Gaiman

2.       "The health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries."—Carl Sagan

3.       "What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else –is the fact that it exists."—Archibald MacLeish

4.       "Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better."—Sidney Sheldon

5.       "When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church , which belongs to God and the public library, which belongs to you."—Keith Richards

6.       "The very existence of libraries' affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man."—T S Eliot

7.       "To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads."—Jon Bing

8.       "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."—Frankline D Roosevelt

9.       "Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down."—Toby Forward

10.   "They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?"—Sara Sheridan

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."

- Lemony Snicket

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." - Sir Francis Bacon.