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As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain. -- Jill Abramson
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. -- Matthew Lesko
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library. -- Martin Lewis Perl
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. -- Robert Reich
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
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library. -- Katherine Paterson
Access to public libraries also affects how much children read. -- Stephen D. Krashen
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure. -- Virginia Woolf
Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. -- Henry Rollins
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. -- Bill Gates
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. -- Cecil B. DeMille
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds. -- David McCullough
As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books. -- Raymond Chandler
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. -- John F. Kennedy
Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer. -- Carla Hayden
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries. -- Terence Cooke
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries. What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress. -- David McCullough
I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them. -- William Lyon Phelps
NC LIVE has the potential to give citizens across North Carolina immediate access to the rich array of information resources housed by the libraries on UNC's 16 campuses. It will allow unprecedented collaboration and sharing of resources among sister UNC institutions, the community colleges, and the state's public libraries. -- Molly Corbett Broad
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks. -- Scott Turow
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature. -- Edward Bellamy
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories. -- Georges Bernanos
The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. -- Henry Rollins
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. -- Alan Bennett
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. -- Andrew Wiles
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. -- Tony Benn
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. -- Samuel Johnson
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. -- Mark Ruffalo
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. -- Karin Slaughter
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great. -- Karen DeCrow
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term. -- Anthony Browne
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
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. -- Zadie Smith
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
Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them. -- Jonathan Raban
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
Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space. -- Joshua Prince-Ramus
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries. -- Peter Porter
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? -- Fran Lebowitz
I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves. -- Tom Peters
Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it. -- Francis Spufford
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead"¦ -- Marguerite Yourcenar
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will. -- Adam Weishaupt
Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none. -- Julie Andrews

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