Books Quote by Fran Lebowitz

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

“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

“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

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

“There are no children's books in prison.”

— Stephen Reid

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

“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

“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

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to the library,…

— Ron Koertge

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

“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the…

— Avi Steinberg