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. True, the superhero is more likely to be wearing a cardigan than a ba...
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
(pl. ) of Library
The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, i...
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Love : so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the real feeling of it!
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
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 lib...
[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the tea...
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.
Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you co...
The shelves were supposed to be loaded with books—but they were, of course, really doors: each book-lid opened as exciting as Alice putting her gold key in the lock. I spent days running in and out of...
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the en...
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing
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