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“Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.”
― Marilyn Johnson

“Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“Παλιά ξύλα καίγε, παλιό κρασί πίνε, παλιούς φίλους κράτα, παλιά βιβλία διάβαζε.”
― Louis Aragon

“Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“Μη δανείζετε ποτέ βιβλία σας σε φίλους. Κανένας δεν τα επιστρέφει. Τα μοναδικά βιβλία που έχουν μείνει στη βιβλιοθήκη μου είναι όσα μου εδάνεισαν κατά καιρούς οι φίλοι μου.”
― Anatole France

“Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Στην Αμερική οι εκατομμυριούχοι είναι κάτοχοι ωραίων βιβλιοθηκών. Αλλά ένα έθνος δεν είναι αληθινά πολιτισμένο, παρά μόνο όταν οι φτωχοί του έχουν και αυτοί βιβλία.”
― Bullit

“Οι άνθρωποι μπορούν να χάσουν τις ζωές τους στις βιβλιοθήκες. Θα πρέπει να προειδοποιούνται.”
― Saul Bellow

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Υπάρχουν άνθρωποι που έχουν μια βιβλιοθήκη, όπως οι ευνούχοι έχουν ένα χαρέμι.”
― Hugo Victor 1802-1885

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Αν έχεις ένα κήπο και μια βιβλιοθήκη, έχεις όλα όσα σου χρειάζονται.”
― cicero

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“Πάντα φανταζόμουν τον παράδεισο σαν ένα είδος βιβλιοθήκης.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Εκείνη η τέλεια γαλήνη στη ζωή που δεν μπορεί να βρεθεί παρά μόνο στην απόσυρση, σε ένα καλό φίλο, σε μια καλή βιβλιοθήκη.”
― Behn Aphra

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
― Lady Bird Johnson

“Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.”
― Jimmy Buffett

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

“Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.”
― Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia

“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.”
― Robert Littell

“Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.”
― Gene Simmons

“The public library is where place and possibility meet.”
― Stuart Dybek

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance

“Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just
as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how
well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to
me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.”
― Robert Heinlein

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.”
― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

“Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. ”
― Roger Ebert