(via bookoisseur)
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
Barbara Kingsolver (via curlupwithagoodbook)
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. The public library is the great equalizer.
#quotes #library #libraries #NYPL #Keith Richards
1 month ago on April 24, 2012 at 10:00am with 177 notes
Via nypl.org
1 month ago on April 24, 2012 at 10:00am with 177 notes
Via nypl.org
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
#books #library #libraries #reading #quotes
2 months ago on March 16, 2012 at 03:52pm with 721 notes
Via wifeofwrath
2 months ago on March 16, 2012 at 03:52pm with 721 notes
Via wifeofwrath
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. The public library is a great equalizer.
Keith Richards, of the Rolling Stones.
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
Thomas Carlyle (via quoteremark)
When I was young, we couldn’t afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.
John Goodman (via myimaginarybrooklyn)
Jorges Luis Borges
Whatever the costs of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter Cronkite (via cartulary)
#quotes #walter cronkite #libraries
3 months ago on February 28, 2012 at 04:29pm with 5 notes
Via cartulary
3 months ago on February 28, 2012 at 04:29pm with 5 notes
Via cartulary
Libraries and the librarians who staff them truly do have the ability to be a transformative power in their communities.
Marijke Visser in her latest District Dispatch post. (via libraryadvocates)
I do things like get in a taxi and say,
“The library, and step on it.
David Foster Wallace (via drchulita07)
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus (via burnthazel)
