This is a collection of quotes of why libraries are great community and national resources and what we can do to help those who don't have access to them.

1. What would we do without them?
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2. In America and
here in the San
Francisco Bay area
we are blessed
with some of the
best public
libraries in the
world

3. This is a small recognition of what
libraries mean to me through the
words of literary giants

4. “Libraries are our friends.”
Neil Gaiman

5. “Libraries raised me.”
Ray Bradbury

6. “Librarians have
always been among
the most thoughtful
and helpful people.
They are teachers
without a classroom.
No libraries, no
progress.”
Willard Scott

7. “To add a library to a house is to give
that house a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

8. “To build up a
library is to
create a life. It's
never just a
random
collection of
books.”
Carlos María
Domínguez, The
House of Paper

9. “Without libraries what have we? We
have no past and no future.”
Ray Bradbury

10. “A library outranks any other one thing
a community can do to benefit its
people. It is a never failing spring in
the desert.”
Andrew Carnegie

11. “Schools and libraries are
the twin cornerstones of a
civilized society. Libraries
are only good if people
use them, like books only
exist when someone
reads them.”
Nicholas Meyer

12. “Whatever the
cost of our
libraries, the price
is cheap
compared to that
of an ignorant
nation.”
Walter Cronkite

13. “Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps
the most dangerous and powerful of
all weapons.”
Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

14. “Libraries really are wonderful.
They're better than bookshops,
even. I mean bookshops make a
profit on selling you books, but
libraries just sit there lending you
books quietly out of the goodness
of their hearts.”
Jo Walton, Among Others

15. “Libraries store the energy
that fuels the imagination.
They open up windows to
the world and inspire us to
explore and achieve, and
contribute to improving our
quality of life. Libraries
change lives for the better.”
Sidney Sheldon

16. “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.”
Keith Richards

17. “The love of libraries, like most loves,
must be learned. ”
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

18. “Every reader his or her book.
Every book its reader.”
S.R. Ranganathan

19. “Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the
world and a glory of civilization.”
Jo Walton, Among Others

20. “My two favorite things in life are libraries and
bicycles. They both move people forward
without wasting anything. The perfect day:
riding a bike to the library.”
Peter Golkin

21. “We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the
way digital books do; we'll always need places to
display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for
story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar
libraries.”
Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and
Cybrarians Can Save Us All

22. “A library is a place
where you learn
what teachers were
afraid to teach you.”
Alan M. Dershowitz

23. “Libraries are the future of reading.
When the economy is down, we need
to make it easier for people to buy and
read books for free, not harder.
Courtney Milan

24. “They should be taking bonuses from
bankers, not library books from
schoolchildren. What kind of society
are we building?”
Sara Sheridan

25. “I ransack public libraries, and find
them full of sunk treasure.”
Virginia Woolf

26. “I always say, 'Books beat boredom,'
said Amanda Wisely.”

27. “Her library is a
meeting place
for all who love
books. They
discuss matters
of the world and
matters of the
spirit.”
Jeanette Winter, The
Librarian of Basra: A True
Story from Iraq

28. “The idea of a library
full of books, the
books full of
knowledge, fills me
with fear and love
and courage and
endless wonder.”
Elizabeth McCracken

29. Where is your love and devotion?

30. When truth has no burning, then it is
philosophy, when it gets burning from
the heart, it becomes poetry.
Muhammad Iqbal
(Poet-Philosopher)

31. “Two there are who are never satisfied
-- the lover of the world and the lover
of knowledge.”
Rumi

32. Help start a mobile library in a
developing country
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33. Donate quality books to those who
don’t have access to public libraries
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