Library Cards Quotes

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one. ~ Malorie Blackman

My alma mater was books, a good library ... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ~ Malcolm X

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards. ~ John Grisham

In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental! ~ RuPaul

No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card. ~ Joan Rivers

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life ... The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself. ~ Gloria Estefan

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day. ~ Stuart Dybek

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card. ~ August Bier

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. ~ Laura Bush

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities. ~ Bill Gates

There is no problem a library card can't solve. ~ Eleanor Brown

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives ... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

You've never been a whiner, Margo."
"I could give lessons.It's time for me to grow up, take responsibility,be sensible."
"Talk to life insurance salesman," Josh said dryly. "Apply for a library card.Clip coupons."
She looked down her nose. "Spoken like a man born with not only a silver spoon but the whole place setting stuck in his arrogant little mouth."
"I happen to have several library cards," he muttered. "Somewhere."
"Do you mind? ~ Nora Roberts

Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked. ~ John Kennedy Toole

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. ~ Rita Mae Brown

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. ~ Bill Russell

Note found in the patron suggestion box:
"You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They laugh out loud and talk out loud. Libraries used to be quiet, but they aren't anymore because you let all the assholes in!!!!! ~ Gina Sheridan

Marsh looked at me sideways, causing a brief stir of familiarity. "You liked the library?"
"It was all I could do to keep her from bolting herself inside," Alistair told him.
With mock indignation, I protested, "I never even touched a book. I walked through and walked out."
"Her eyes were filled with an unnatural light," Alister confided in his cousin. "I feared for my safety. ~ Laurie R. King

Just so long as Charlotte doesn't know what was going on," said Lesley.
"Don't worry, she went to her room in a fury just because I put down the word cardscissors.
"Which as everyone knows are scissors for cutting cards," said Xemerius. "Essential in every household. ~ Kerstin Gier

I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything. ~ Lupe Fiasco

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. ~ H.G.Wells

No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror
at the cluster or the vastness, the stillness, the mocking reminder of everything one doesn't know, the surveillance
and some of that overwhelming feeling may cling on, even after the rituals and conventions are learned, the geography mapped, and the natives found friendly. ~ Alberto Manguel

All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off. ~ Cal Thomas

The library was magical because every time I walked through the door, there were literally thousands of voices ready and willing to have a conversation with me. I walked through the door, stared at all those stacks and bindings, and whispered, Tell me a story. ~ Charles Martin

Shannon and all of us started the band so it just felt really natural, and then she quit, and then she came back, and then she quit again. I love working with her and would do it again, but that's just not in the cards. And Josh is a great person to play with - he can play any instrument. He's really inspiring and positive. It was great. It was meant to be temporary. ~ Theresa Wayman

By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Dewey Hall was the only building on campus not made of brick, and the tornado came for it in absolute maturity, no umbilical growth now but a strong slender lady hip-walking through campus--past the science hall, past English, jumping Old Main and the library with deliberate grace and lighting on the shallow rookf of Dewey, where Dad toiled alone. ~ Leif Enger

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. ~ Thomas Hobbes

Every person comes with a place. It can be a house, a park, a building. When you meet someone, you are unknowingly meeting a place, a two-for-one deal that neither party is really aware of yet. Regular Joe's is Marcus' place. Mine is the library, second floor, nonfiction, the table between the Poker aisle and European History. Two-thousand days of friendship means that we share. ~ Chloe Rattray

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. ~ Charles Stross

A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living. ~ Bob Phillips

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess. ~ Ron Livingston

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games. ~ Laura Marling

She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after they looked at new things. If in the years to be she were to come back, her new eyes might make everything seem different from the way she saw it now. The way it was now was the way she wanted to remember it. ~ Betty Smith

You're too much of a bitch to go gently into that good night."
"You should put that on a greeting card. ~ SE Zbasnik

I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said, The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it. ~ David Foster Wallace

Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.
I wondered whether they had books about his sort of thing. Fifty Ways to Tell the Living from the Dead Before You Wind Up in a Padded Room. Yep, I'm sure the library carried that one. ~ Kelley Armstrong

For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened. ~ Reza Aslan

Your mind is your library of what you read. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why should I have a calling card? I'm not a call girl! ~ Melanie

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders. ~ Robert Hughes

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. ~ Paula Poundstone

I hate when people do this. I hate when people hide their cards to feel secret and strong. That's no way of dealing with anything. ~ Hannah Moskowitz

I see you in the library. The way you love the books. ~ Ann Hood

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached. ~ Bernard Berenson

I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers. ~ Ross Perot, Jr.

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. ~ Steve Ballmer

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. ~ E.B. White

Thank you, Josh. Thank you for ruining my capacity to trust so that any guy that comes after you will automatically have the cards stacked against him. ~ R.S. Grey

I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough. ~ Barack Obama

A library is an arsenal of liberty. ~ Chris Grabenstein