Munira Mirza Quotes

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

A library is thought in cold storage.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

Without the library, I would have been lost.

I was a librarian in a city school.

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

A library implies an act of faith.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I'm not a library.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Libraries are where it all begins.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

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.