It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan GregorianThe only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.
Vartan GregorianThe universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.
Vartan GregorianThe library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
Vartan GregorianThe library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
Vartan GregorianOne of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.
Vartan Gregorian