Library Materials Centre

Famous quotes containing the words library, materials and/or centre:

    “A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)