Germaine Greer Quotes

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Dear me, how I love a library.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.