Libraries Quotes

Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Barbara tuchman - to a historian libraries are food, shelter, and...
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Vartan Gregorian
Allen ginsberg - america, why are your libraries full of tears?...