Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.
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
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
A library should be like a pair of open arms.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Access to a school library results in more reading.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
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