Quotes About Library

I've always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.

I love cookbooks. I collect them.

Our shelves are groaning with the amount of cookbooks, it's scary.

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar.

I predict that you students who are burning out from the pressure to fix upon a career choice as early as possible and tailor your studies accordingly, will find relief for a few hours here and there in a great library.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Books are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.' Gilbert Highet.

are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.' Gilbert Highet.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the kissing. "Don't," said Adrian, his eyes ablaze and breathing ragged. "What if there's a crisis at school?" I asked. "What if Angeline 'accidentally' stole one of the campus buses and drove it into the library?" "Why would she do that?" "Are you saying she wouldn't?" He sighed. "Go check it.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

This is a great idea," said Trey. "You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and hang out at the library or whatever it is you do for fun.

Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

I went to the library seeking information on what might bring hearing back, but now I wonder if there's a way to make it go away again. I can't see why our ancestors thought hearing was such a great thing, why they mourned its loss so much. It's jarring and distracting, making it impossible to focus on anything else.

Why couldn't I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Did you know, Matilda said suddenly, that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a second ? I did not, Miss Honey said smiling. How absolutely fascinating. Where did you read that? In a book from the library, Matilda said. And that means it goes so fast that you can't even hear the separate beats. It must sound like a buzz. It must, Miss Honey said.

This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.

dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she? 'That's a library book!' Matilda cried. 'It doesn't belong to me! I have to return

That's why the Bible is not a book about going to heaven. The action is here. The life is here. The point is here. It's a library of books about the healing and restoring and reconciling and renewing of this world. Our home.

The Bible is a library of books reflecting how human beings have understood the divine.