Alma mater Quote by David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

— David Mamet

My alma mater was books, a good library.

— Malcolm X

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

— Malcolm X

I spent most of my time in libraries or Brent Cross shopping centre. I didn't understand what school was about. I was just lost.

— Paterson Joseph

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

— Douglas Brinkley

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public…

— Jerzy Kosinski

The Library is the heart of the University.

— Charles William Eliot

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so…

— Jeff Kinney

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading…

— Jessye Norman

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for…

— Malala Yousafzai

The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

As soon as I graduated from high school I was off to the biggest college my parents could afford, Colorado University at Boulder, having…

— Susan Schneider