Beach Quote by John Callahan

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly…

— Jodi Rell

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one…

— Kim Boykin

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

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there…

— Jo Walton

I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs…

— John Jakes

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

— Madeleine Albright

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

— Susan Orlean

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of…

— Paula Poundstone

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure…

— James H. Billington

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books…

— Courtney Milan

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute…

— Sidney Sheldon

For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the…

— Helen Vendler