Library Colleagues:
SORRY, did not know we could not attach to listserv postings.
Thank you so much for your contributions to the quote request.
BELOW please find a compilation of quotes received. Sorry for any
duplication, but I had MANY responses.
Sharyl Edmondson
Library Media Specialist
Eureka Jr/Sr High School
Eureka, KS 67045
"What a school thinks about its library, is a measure of what it thinks
about education." Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
LIBRARY QUOTES
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we
can find information upon it." Samuel Johnson
*** Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container. ***- Unknown
Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't.
Mark Twain
"It's no use going to school unless the library is your final destination."
Ray Bradbury
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to
stretch your own.--Charles Scribner, Jr.
"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get
you through times of no libraries."
Anne Herbert, The Whole Earth Catalog
"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack
rats and vandalized nightly."
Roger Ebert - September 1998 Yahoo Internet Life
"Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the
general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the Structure of a
government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion
should be enlightened."
>From the 1796 Farewell Address of George Washington
1) Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a
vigorous mind.
2) Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are
performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must
be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the
maximum." -Henry Miller, novelist (1891-1980)
"She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought;
I could always learn." Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy, (1964).
"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ~~ W.
B. Yeats (1865 - 1939
"Information cannot replace education." ~~ Earl Kiole
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
abilities.--J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it." ~~ Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE)
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely
uneducated." ~~ Alec Bourne
" 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." -- Monty Python
"Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the
sound and natural development of any people." ~~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn
by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he
lives." ~~ Clay P. Bedford
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." ~~ Mary McLeod Bethune
(1875 - 1955)
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~~ Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
"You learn something every day if you pay attention." ~~ Ray LeBlond
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance" ~~ Claus Moser (1922 - )
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." ~~ Socrates (470
- 399 BC)
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that
search may lead us." ~~ Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." Chinese Proverb
"Education is the transmission of civilization." Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
"You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think." The Talmud
"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." -- Monty Python
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a
telescope." Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a
nail." Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic
pictures." George W. Bush, President of the United States, Graduate of Yale
and Harvard
"What a school thinks about its library, is a measure of what it thinksabout
education." Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
"Try curiosity!"--Dorothy Parker
The closest thing you will find to an orderly universe is a good
library - Ashleigh Brilliant
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had
really happened." ...Ernest Hemingway
"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
The soul is healed by being with children. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
novelist
(1821-1881)
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost."J.R.R.
Tolkien
"Technology makes things possible... People make things happen." ErichBlock
"Education is not a destination, it's a start." Larry Burns, General Motors
"Filter a website, and you protect a student for a day. Educate
students about online safety in a real world environment, and you
protect your child for a lifetime." Christopher Harris
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense. --Ralph Waldo Emerson.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and
cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy
itself."---Isaac Asimov
He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing."--To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would
it?” Albert Einstein
"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
"I get a dizzy feeling when I see all the books snuggled up tight
against one another on the shelves..."
~ Counting on Grace: a novel ~ by Elizabeth Winthrop
"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an
ignorant nation." Walter Cronkite
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The
learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists." --Eric Hoffer
"There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race
between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make
sure that education wins the race."--John F. Kennedy
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops."--Henry Brooks Adams
"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of
society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the
earth."--Helen Caldicott, author and peace activist
"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who
tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau,sometimes poking you with
a sharp stick called truth."--Dan Rather
"The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential
for good or bad... Several future presidents are learning from me today; so
are the great writers of the next decades, and so are all the so-called
ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I must never
forget these same young people could be the thieves and murderers of the
future. Only a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession
of all! I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile opportunity to
improve tomorrow."--Ivan Welton Fitzwater
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
--Mark Van Doren
"If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a
tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you
will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred
harvests."--Kuan Chung
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."--Anatole France
"Information is the currency of democracy."--Ralph Nader
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young."--Henry Ford
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but
with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so
much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing
plant and for the soul of the child."--Carl Jung
"Education is light, lack of it darkness."--Russian proverb
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the
rest of us would have to settle for something less."--Lee Iacocca
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read,
we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. S. I.
Hayakawa
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking
something up and finding something else on the way.”--Franklin P. Adams
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."--Mortimer Adler
"She's too fond of books and her brain has become addled."--Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women
"....Reading is the river
To your liberty
For all your life to come"
--Maya Angelou
LIBRARY
Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
--Richard Armour
“Knowledge is Power!”--Francois Bacon
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”--Henry Ward
Beecher
"Nothing in recent years on television or anywhere else, has improved upon a
good story that begins, 'Once Upon a Time.'"--William J. Bennett
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”--Jorge Luis
Borges
“The closest thing you will find to an orderly universe is a good
library.”--Ashleigh Brilliant
"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!"
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"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
“Reading is a window to the world!”--Lynn Butler
"There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the free public
library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth
receives the slightest consideration."
--Andrew Carnegie
"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
“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”--Chinese Proverb
“If over others you would leap, then in a book you must seek.”--Chinese proverb
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” --Cicero
“He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.” --Cicero
"Teachers aren't paid to love children. Loving children is what teachers do
for extra credit. It's not the main assignment - but it's more important than
the main assignment. Extra credit is done of your own free will. Work and
love given of your own free will is always more joyous, better quality stuff."
--Esme Codell, Sahara Special
"Words are the voice of the heart". --Confucius
“I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.” --Robert
Cormier
“Libraries enable the past to talk to the future.”--Edward Cornish
"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an
ignorant nation." --Walter Cronkite
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
--Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
"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
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."--Frederick Douglass
"Never judge a book by its movie." --J. W. Eagan
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds." --Albert Einstein
“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
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what he reads.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends.”--Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“When I get a little money, I buy books; and if there is any left, I buy food
and clothes.” --Erasmus
"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled." --Helen Exley
“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”--Jean
Fritz
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." --Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination."
--Elizabeth Hardwick
"I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was
satisfied."--Ernest Hemingway
"Knowledge, like the sky, isn't private property."--Abraham Joshua Herschel
“I cannot live without books.” --Thomas Jefferson
“Information is the currency of democracy.” --Thomas Jefferson
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or
lose."--Lyndon B. Johnson
"Knowledge is of two kinds: that which we know and...,"--Samuel Johnson
"A good book written for children can be read by adults." --Norton Juster, The
Phantom Tollbooth
“Literature is my Utopia.” --Hellen Keller
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe
with fur.” --Doug Larson, Olympic Gold Medalist
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love
breathing.”--Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“A library is a fueling station for your mind.”--Steve Leveen
“It is better to build children than rebuild men.”--Abraham Lincoln
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
--Arnold Lobel
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of
books."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Ahh, the sweet smell of new books…I mean success!"--DaShannon Lovin
"Life happened because I turned the pages" --Alberto Manguel
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to
bring up children without surrounding them with books.... Children learn to
read being in the presence of books.”
--Horace Mann
"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by
others."--Andre Maurois
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our
minds" --Robert Nester Marley
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to
read."--Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"Books fall open, you fall in..." --David McCord
"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the
pleasure of a library lies in its very existence." --Jan Morris
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of
it." --P. J. O'Rourke
“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
"It is trite but true: Read. Read like a wolf eats. Read when they tell you
not to read and read what they tell you not to read."--Gary Paulsen
“I read because one life isn't enough.”--Richard Peck
“With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.” --Ezra Pound
"Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but 'Once Upon a Time' lasts forever.'"
--Philip Pullman (1996 Carnegie Medal acceptance speech)
“Books are for use
Every reader his/her book
Every book, its reader
Save the time of the reader
A library is a growing organism”
--Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our
abilities."--J.K. Rowling, Professor Dumbledore from Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets
“We have found that a library is not an end in itself, but a means to many
ends.”--Charles E. Rush, 1939
"If you want to whet the intellect of the future, the perfect place to be is
in a library." -- RJS
"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps
someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."-- Carl Sagan
“A library is thought in cold storage.”--Herbert Samuel
"Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling,
and art for matches."
-- Gary D. Schmidt in Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
“The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.”
--Dr. Seuss
"Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book." --Frank Dempster
Sherman
"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."--Alexander Smith, Books and Gardens
"A life without stories would be no life at all." --Alexander McCall Smith,
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
"Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the
reasons for their wickedness."--Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
“Wisdom begins with wonder...”
--Socrates
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”--Richard Steele
"Some people there are who, being grown, forge the horrible task of learning
to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes,
and he must do it as a child."
--John Steinbeck
If we didn't have libraries, many people thirsty for knowledge would
dehydrate.--Megan Jo Tetrick, age 12 (Daleville, Indiana)
"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
"In the nonstop tsunami of global information librarians provide us with
floaties and teach us to swim."--Linton Weeks, Washington Post, January 13, 2001.
"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
"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young
know everything."--Oscar Wilde
“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew
right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life.
As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving
to be mentally alive.” --Malcolm X
"Do or do not…there is no try."-- Yoda, Star Wars
"Whoever dares to tell a story must bear in mind that story is an essential
part of our humanness." --Jane Yolen, Touch Magic
"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
"Books invite all; they constrain none."--Inscription at the Los Angeles
Public Library
The medicine chest of the soul. --Inscription over the door of the Library at
Thebes
Nutrimentum spiritus. (Food for the soul)--Inscribed over a German library
"Books are food for the mind."
“Books are bridges from the past to the future.”
"Books are food for the mind."
"BOOKS…The original laptops."
"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
“Google is just a drunk librarian who won't shut up”
“If librarians ruled the world, reading would be a varsity sport.”
"If reading was a varsity sport, librarians would rule the world.'
"In a world without walls or fences, what need have we for windows or gates?"
“Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.”
"Librarian. Genetically predisposed to answer questions and correct
misconceptions - whether asked or not."
"Librarians may not have all the answers, but we know where to find them!"
"Librarianship is a series of interruptions, interrupted by interruptions."
“Open books encourage open minds.”
“The library is a growing organism and through the growth of an organism,
things evolve, change, and often become more advanced.”
“The more you read,
The more you know.
The more you know,
The better your voice,
When speaking your mind,
Or making your choice.”
"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is
the best of all."
“Want to raise test scores? School libraries help. Make school libraries a
priority.”
“We may be service-oriented, but we don't have to be servants.”
"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 good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and
generations meet.
- Samuel NIGER (1883-1956)
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of
tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books.
They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the
public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will
make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.
- Sir William Osler, 1917
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where
literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is
expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates,
should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history
comes to life.
- Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475 Norman COUSINS (1915- )
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
-Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986)
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. - Thomas
JEFFERSON (1743-1826)
Information is the currency of democracy. - Thomas JEFFERSON (1743-1826)
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that
is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is
a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F. KENNEDY
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring
it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will
forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must
arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. - James MADISON
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not
enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true
architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose
family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder
and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit
to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read
constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can
only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one
more way to destroy itself.
- I, Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1994. Isaac ASIMOV
"What can I say? Librarians rule."
Regis Philbin _(Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, 17 February 2000)
"Anyhow, kids are very tough. What they find for themselves they should be
able to read for themselves."Ursula K. LeGuin_(Horn Book letter, April 1973)
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who
think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
(Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991)
"They say that reading is dead, but it isn't. It's just ... uh ...
pathologically crippled."
Jon Stewart (The Daily Show, 14 July 2004)
"There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable
people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows
what to do with it." Peter Drucker _ (Quoted in Industry Week article, 24
January 2000)
"We must not confuse the thrill of acquiring or distributing information
quickly with the more daunting task of converting it into knowledge and wisdom."
Principles of Technorealism -- Principle 4 _(http://www.technorealism.org/)
"What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all
intelligent people who want to learn it." Stephen Jay Gould _ (Booklist
interview, 1 Dec. 1998, p. 632)
"A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone." Jo Godwin
"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack
rats and vandalized nightly." Roger Ebert _(Yahoo! Internet Life column, Sept.
1998, p. 66)
"Trying to find information on the Web is like walking into a library after an
earthquake, with the books strewn all over the floor." (Exploring the Internet
Using Critical Thinking Skills by Debra Jones).
"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
"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with
floaties and teach us how to swim." Linton Weeks (Washington Post article, 13
January 2001, p. C01) ø€º°
FAC OMNIA BENE - do all things well (Latin phrase)
"Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better.
It's not."-The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
"Books impede the persistence of stupidity."Spanish proverb
#1. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to
stop reading them. (RAY BRADBURY)
#2. The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which
makes you think. (JAMES McCOSH)
#3. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love
breathing.(HARPER LEE)
#4. A wise man reads both books AND life itself.(LIN YUTANG)
#5. The person who does not read is no better off than the person who can't
read.(MARK TWAIN)
#6. It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it
well.(RENE DESCARTES)
#7. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one
generation to another.(GILBERT CHESTERTON)
#8. The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does
anything.(THEODORE ROOSEVELT)
#9. A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.
(HENRY B. ADAMS)
#11. I best head to the library - Research beckons. (RUPERT GILES)
#14. Librarians possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get
asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth.(GARRISON KEILLOR)
#16. Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices and raise
up their minds.(RICHARD ARMOUR)
#17. If you can read, you can do anything (DOLLY PARTON)
"The Library is Cool!"(DANIELLE HOWARD)
"The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination."
--Elizabeth Hardwick
“A library is a fueling station for your mind.”--Steve Leveen
“It is better to build children than rebuild men.”
--Abraham Lincoln
"Life happened because I turned the pages" --Alberto Manguel
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our
minds" --Robert Nester Marley
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and
those who matter don't mind." ~Dr. Seuss
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by
others.--Andre Maurois
Books invite all; they constrain none.--Inscription at the Los Angeles Public
Library
"Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the
reasons for their wickedness." Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril (2005)
We have found that a library is not an end in itself, but a means to Many
ends. Charles E. Rush, 1939
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