Italo Calvino Quotes

A safe and convenient haven wherein a thousand ships may ride in safety.

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

The United States is a safe harbor.

I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Home is your sanctuary.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

You are now under the protection of the United Nations …. I will never abandon you.

… prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Everybody needs a safe place, and it should be their home.

School was my sanctuary.

Hogwarts is comforting.

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.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

We have no home, she told me. I am your home.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...