If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. ~ Judah Ha Levi

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us. ~ Virginia Hamilton

Library — here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices and raise their minds. ~ Richard Armour

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

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ~ Anatole France

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in love in the library, once upon a time. ~ Jimmy Buffett

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards. ~ John Grisham

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~ Samuel Johnson

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating — and yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom. ~ Rita Dove

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