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Letter "L" » Libraries
«That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library»
«Libraries are not made, they grow»
«Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.»
«To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.»
«The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.»
Author: Carl T. Rowan
(Journalist)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
history, in history, learning, liberated, library, temple, Temple in, Temple of, The Library, The temple, wars
«My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve»
«No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
| About:
Libraries,
University
| Keywords:
correspondingly, risen, university
«Some men have only one book in them, others a library»
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
affords, crowded, inquiry, laborious, meditations, public libraries, public library, The C, volumes
«My library was dukedom large enough.»
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