Children Quote by Alan Gibson

“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we've always…

— Barack Obama

“Kids who read become students who do well in school. Students who do well in school go to college. College students graduate to good…

— Alan Bennett

“And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for…

— Barack Obama

“The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.”

— Anonymous

“A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on…

— Anne Osborn

“For a child a library needs to be round the corner. And if we lose local libraries it is children who will suffer.”

— Alan Bennett

Schools insist that everything is under their purview - what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground.

— Mike Gallagher

“We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you…

— Neil Gaiman

“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and…

— Scott Douglas

“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and…

— Ray Bradbury

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”

— Harold Howe

“Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books and education…

— Harlan Coben