“Without the library, you have no civilization.”

“Oh God, without them [libraries], what have we? We have no past and we have no future.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

“What in the world would we do without our libraries?”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.”

Mo Willems (1968) American children's illustrator and writer

“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

“It is like having a book out from the library.
It is like constantly having a book out from the library.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol