1. To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.-Carlos Maria Dominguez
2. Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.-Ray Bradbury
3. Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.-Anne Herbert
4. The most important asset of any library goes home at night-the library staff.-Timothy Healy
5. People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.-Saul Bellow
6. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.-Laura Bush
7. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.-Norman Cousins
8. I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.-Virginia Woolf
9. 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
10. A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.-Henry Ward Beecher
11. Libraries raised me.-Ray Bradbury
12. Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.-Laura Bush
13. Libraries are our friends.-Neil Gaiman
14. What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.-Harold Howe
15. A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.-Alan M. Dershowitz
16. The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.-Alberto Manguel
17. Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.-Alberto Manguel
18. The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.-Alberto Manguel
19. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.-Alberto Manguel
20. Libraries are the future of reading.-Courtney Milan
21. Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.-Richard Armour
22. Libraries are not made; they grow.-Augustine BIRRELL
23. My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid.-Joan Bauer
24. Your library is your paradise.-Desiderius Erasmus
25. Great libraries have always looked to both the future and the past.-Laura Shapiro
26. If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.-Wendell H. Ford
27. In the library, one often finds people close their mouths and open their minds!-unknown
28. A great library contains the diary of the human race.-George Mercer Dawson
29. A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.-Jo Godwin