Pastoral Resources

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.