Logo
Quote by Timothy Healy
To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization. – Timothy Healy

Other quotes by Timothy Healy
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Libraries
category

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table

Category:
Libraries

A mans library is a sort of harem. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Libraries

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Libraries

A great library contains the diary of the human race. – George Mercer Dawson

Category:
Libraries

Random Quotes

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. – Carter Burwell

Category:
Death

The term serious actor is kind of an oxymoron, isnt it? Like Republican party or airplane food. – Johnny Depp

Category:
Food

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. – Charles Horton Cooley

Category:
Class

I have loved skipping since I was a little girl and I have never been able to restrain myself when an open stretch of sidewalk or path beckons me. – Marelu Marson, courtesy of iSkip.com

Category:
Skipping