Quotes from Vartan Gregorian

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

I have an historical, a cultural, and a moral obligation to give back something to my country. So I became a teacher.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.