Community Quote by Andrew Carnegie

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when…

— Nicholas Meyer

“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

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children…

— Barack Obama

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

— Laura Bush

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

— Fran Lebowitz

“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or…

— John Cotton Dana

There really shouldn't be public schools, should there?

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers…

— Scott Turow

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…

— Katherine Paterson

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they…

— Kate Mosse

Every one of us deserves the right to have a great education that's going to prepare us and give us the tools that we…

— Carmen Carrera

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

— Karin Slaughter