Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library:… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. — David Strathairn Copy Share Image
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid -… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open,… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
“Touching him, kissing him, was like having a fever all over again. I was on fire. My body burned. The world burned.… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much,… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books. — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“The library is the only place where I don’t have to try to fit in. It’s effortless.” — Donna Cooner Copy Share Image
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To use it should be as natural ... as to use the trolley when one needs transportation. — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there. — Shaun Evans Copy Share Image
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“What about study hall? Shouldn't I go to the library? "What for, Ms. Lord?" Mr. anderson said. "You're with me” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.” — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
“A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.” — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image