This is the quote I selected:
"What a school thinks about its library, is a measure of what it thinks about
education." Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
These are the quotes or places that others suggested:
"Dare others towards greateness one-step-at-a-time by reading them a book
or encouraging them to read ...because reading stirs the imagination...,
and imagination is the freedom from the laws of common sense."
---Salvador SeBasco
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure
Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can
enjoy these riches every day of your life."
- Walt Disney -
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotations/reading/
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible
companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours
pleasant as long as you live."
---from How Reading Changed My Life, by Anna Quindlen
He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most
accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." -
Charles W. Eliot
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
Knowledge is Power--Francois Bacon
The Hand that Follows Intellect Can Achieve--Unknown
"until I feared I would lose it, I never loved toread. One does not
love breathing." Harper Lee, author of TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
"In a world without walls or fences,
what need have we for windows or gates?"
-- Unknown
"Do or do not ---there is no try."
-- Yoda
"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young
know everything."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
--Oscar Wilde
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some
are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors. But they
all have to learn to live in the same box.
"A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from safe port. Ah, yes,
but once you're aboard, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own.
Be careful Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose."
Avi- True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too
dark to read."
(Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
Librarians may not have all the answers, but we know where to find them!
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on others." -- Jackie
Robinson
Ahh the sweet smell of new books- I mean success!
--
DaShannon Lovin
Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and
gravity, we shall harness the
energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire. --
Teilhard de Chardin
"What a school thinks about its library, is a measure of what it thinks
about education." Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home" Edward R. Murrow
"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that
threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives
forever, for the better." Barack Obama
"The Librarian, whose job is to heal ignorance, to keep life safe for
poetry and to put knowledge smack dab in the middle of the American
way."
From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-20-03
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free
our minds" -Robert Nester Marley
"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where
people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of
employing wild animals as librarians." --Gorilla Librarian sketch, Monty
Python's Flying Circus TV Show, Episode 10
"I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was
satisfied."
-Ernest Hemingway
"Manners are of more importance
than laws. Manners are what vex
or soothe,
corrupt or purify, exalt or
debase, barbarize or refine us,
by a constant,
steady, uniform, insensible
operation, like that of the air
we breathe in."
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed
me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I
am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but
she showed me the power of reading."
Gary Paulsen, from the biography by Edith Hope Fine
"The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but let's face it:
all
the books are scattered on the floor." - D.C.Denison
"We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities" - Pogo
Check here: http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/books/
<http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/books/>
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin
Toffler
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
~ Jean Fritz ~
"It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our
abilities."
Professor Dumbledore to Harry Potter J.K. Rowling From Harry Potter &
the Chamber of Secrets
"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that
threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives
forever, for the better." Barack Obama
I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
-Robert Cormier
Check at [ http://www.bartleby.com/ ]Bartleby.com. They have
some great ones that I've used before.
"Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book." from
[ http://www.bartleby.com/248/1372.html ]The Library by Frank
Dempster Sherman
In a library we are
surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I
breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's
roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's
first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the
pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of
Alexander." [ http://www.bartleby.com/66/9/54309.html ]from
"Books and Gardens" by Alexander Smith
Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret-room
Piled high with cases in my father's name;
Piled high, packed large,-where, creeping in and out
Among the giant fossils of my past,
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box, pulling through the gap,
In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,
The first book first. And how I felt it beat
Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,
An hour before the sun would let me read!
My books!
[ http://www.bartleby.com/66/73/8773.html ]Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity
of books." by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
BOOKS. The original laptops. If Reading was a Varsity Sport, Librarians
would rule the world.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and, if any is left, I buy food
and clothes."
~attributed to Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
"The universe was full of [magic], it made the stars stay
up and the feet stay down."
--Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
"A life without stories would be no life at all." --from Alexander
McCall Smith's, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies.
"In the nonstop tsunami of global information librarians provide us
with floaties and teach us to swim."
--Linton Weeks, Washington Post, January 13, 2001
"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous
group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the
desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.
I
wouldn't mess with them." Michael Moore
"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that
of an ignorant nation." Walter Cronkite
BOOKS. The original laptops. If Reading was a Varsity Sport, Librarians
would rule the world.
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin
Toffler
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
~ Jean Fritz ~
"It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our
abilities."
Professor Dumbledore to Harry Potter J.K. Rowling From Harry Potter &
the Chamber of Secrets
"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that
threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives
forever, for the better." Barack Obama
I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
-Robert Cormier
"Manners are of more importance
than laws. Manners are what vex
or soothe,
corrupt or purify, exalt or
debase, barbarize or refine us,
by a constant,
steady, uniform, insensible
operation, like that of the air
we breathe in."
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Thanks for all your help!
--
Mary Ann Haug
Library Media Specialist
Sedalia Elementary School
Sedalia, CO
dmhaug2@comcast.net
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