Public Library Quotes

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury

Education, Money, End

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson

Human, Place, Public

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
Charles Kuralt

Time, Everything, Remember

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.
Marc Andreessen

Two, Small, Away

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
Peter Singer

Human, Put, Able

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.
Jose Saramago

Home, Help, Learn

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn

Public, Library, Fifty

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
Andrew Wiles

Best, Problem, Public

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
Mark Ruffalo

Teacher, Night, Old

As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.
James McGreevey

Reality, Understand, Try

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.
Clyde Tombaugh

Young, Used, Looking

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.
Joseph Lancaster

Education, Able, Public

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, Public, Books

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.
John Lewis

Down, Trying, Old

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.
John Sladek

Public, Library, Either

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