Quotes by Tuchman, Barbara

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

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead >>

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is >>

Quotations about Libraries

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept >>

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where h >>

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the gr >>

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

Tuchman, Barbara