Quotes with libraries

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Augustine Birrell Libraries are not made, they grow.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Alexis Carrel The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Edith Hamilton There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Thomas L. Masson There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Hugo Ball We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
    Hugo Ball
    German author and poet (1886 - 1927)
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  • John Ruskin What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carl Stokes What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Ray Bradbury Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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