Ray Bradbury Quotes

Libraries are the pride of the city.

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

Libraries are our friends.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald] Reagan administration is withdrawing assistance, all kinds of welfare programs, and if people don't improvise their own resources to cope with problems of the ageing, problems of the sick, problems of the young, problems of the poor, problems of tenant rights, who will?

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.