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Library Quotes |
Ray Bradbury
It's no use going to school unless the library is your final destination.
Dr. Seuss
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you
learn, the more places you'll go.
Thomas Jefferson
"A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry."
Information is the currency of democracy."
"I cannot live without books."
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
It is a tie between men to have read the same book.
Jorge Luis Borge
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Barbara Tuchman
Books are the Carriers of Civilization.
Joseph Brodsky
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading
them.
Groucho Marx
"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it's too
dark to read."
"I must say television is very educational. The minute someone turns it on, I go
to the library and find a good book."
Oprah Winfrey
Books were my path to personal freedom.
Nicholas
Brendon
(as Xander Harris in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Everyone forgets...that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.
Harold Howe
former US Commisioner of Education
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks
about education.
Walter Cronkite
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to
that of an ignorant nation.
Andrew Carnegie
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.
Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't
read them.
John
Naisbitt
We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge.
Roger Ebert
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack
rats and valdalized nightly.
Maya
Angelou
My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.
Archibald MacLeish
What is more important in a library than anything else--than everything
else--is the fact that it exists.
Malcolm Forbes
All the riches in the world couldn't provide you with anything like the
endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the
awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by
the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that
we were, or will be.
Malcolm X
My alma mater was books, a good library.
Edward Asner
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any
free society.
Sidney
Sheldon
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows
to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving
our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.
Toni Morrison
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great
civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries
stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.
Carl Rowan
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people
than all the wars in history.
Sandra Cisneros
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but
because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could
see my name in the card catalog.
Gloria Estefan
The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any
particular essay or even a specific class; it was how I was able to apply
everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life.
Professional Portfolio
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Little Dog Turpie
& the Hobyahs
an old English folktale